(April 2, 2018 at 2:59 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I'm not asking details, I am showing an essential problem that we don't have a source outside ourselves.
We decide, so then it's not guidance. But if we recognize guidance and act according to morals, than what is it?
(April 2, 2018 at 2:59 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: MK, you’re making this too hard.
I am a human being. I am conscious, sentient, and reasonably intelligent compared to lesser animals. In other words, I posses the basic building blocks for experiencing empathy.
I don’t want to be harmed. I don’t want to be beaten, raped, or killed, because those things hurt. I feel badly imagining other people being hurt in those ways because I can put myself in their shoes. That’s empathy, and it’s the foundation of human morality. It is by no means a comprehensive analysis of morality, but empathy is necessary. Treat others the way you would want to be treated.
See that? No god needed.
Yet most humans don't treat people how they wish to be treated.
You’re right. People do horrendous things to each other in the name of god.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.