RE: morality is subjective and people don't have free will
May 16, 2017 at 4:32 am
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2017 at 4:32 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(May 15, 2017 at 1:58 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: [...]
So my question is this... for those who feel both these things are true - if there is no real right or wrong, and if people don't have the freedom to choose their behavior - then why do you get angry about people acting (or thinking) any certain way? After all, not only is there no right or wrong anyway, but these people don't even choose to act as they do.[...]
And I don't "choose" to get angry. Anger is an emotion - neither I, nor you consciously decide to have them. In fact, you could say we get angry, because we don't have a choice. It's just that you feel the need to justify your instinctive responses to your environment - especially the irrational ones - with some stories from an old book, so that you can smugly straddle your high horse and salivate at the thought of "just" punishment awaiting people, whose actions you disapprove of.
The traffic jam on the way to work doesn't "choose" to be there and people stuck in it aren't doing anything "wrong" - you can still get angry, or otherwise upset, over the consequences of running late...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
