Quote:I know atheists have rules, but rules can be broken, and in such way so as to not receive any earthly punishment, in whatever form.
I feel that one could dispatch all that displease him/her without being psychotic.. You can be of sound mind and still dispatch a lot of displeasians, although we have punishments, in different forms, to deter people from doing away with the displeasians, and this is sufficient to save them, but when you have absolute power, there are no earthly deterents.
I don't know how I can avoid sounding condescending, but you seem to lack any understanding of intentional action, value, desires as a normative force, how beliefs effect our desires and strategies about how to fulfill them, the benefits of society in forming and fulfilling desires, empathy, our evolved deontological moral judgements, our ability to deliberate, our emotional responses, evolutionary psychology or anything else important on the subject, you're head is full of bullshit religious assumptions that taints your thinking.
If you seriously think the only thing that shapes our behavior is what will happen to us after we die, and that if we had absolute power we would have no deterrents thus our only response would be to exterminate people who "displeased us" then you are hugely mistaken. Is that what you think you would do, if you became omnipotent and found out that god did not exist? That makes you a bit of a sociopath, doesn't it? I bet most of us would use our omnipotence to create a better possible world for everyone to inhabit, rather than what you seem to think we would do.
I think you're a bit mental.
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