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Poll: How do you account for psychopaths?
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I don’t believe God is responsible for our morality
50.00%
4 50.00%
I don’t accept that psychopaths really exist
0%
0 0%
Psychopaths are choosing to ignore their innate sense of right and wrong
0%
0 0%
God mistakenly misses out psychopaths when granting morality
0%
0 0%
It’s the psychopath’s fault they have no empathy
25.00%
2 25.00%
It’s because of “the fall”
0%
0 0%
Other
25.00%
2 25.00%
Total 8 vote(s) 100%
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Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
(May 26, 2018 at 11:48 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:
(May 25, 2018 at 10:02 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: If god doesn't exist morality is still objective . And no most atheist don't believe it's subjective.

https://atheistforums.org/thread-48227.h...e+morality

(May 26, 2018 at 11:46 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: 3 million children die of hunger each year, you're telling me that this necessary for some greater good? 

No, and that's what I just explained, dude. 

The individual thing itself (ie starvation) does not serve a greater good. 

God not divinely intervening every time anything bad would happen to any person, I assume, serves a greater good. Both in allowing humans to have free will and in allowing the natural processes of this natural world to run their course. I assume there is a valid reason why He allows for both of those things, even though they sometimes cause suffering.  


Quote:Why can't God just eliminate suffering and death altogether, it seems to me that God if he is all powerful could reach maximum goodness without all of the death, pain, and suffering.

I assume this IS the maximum goodness, if all things are considered, which we can't consider since we haven't seen all of eternity.

(edited due to misreading the first time lol)
1. that poll is hardly representative of atheists as a population 

2. The fact that most moral philosophers are both unbelievers and moral realists puts a nail in that narratives coffin .

Quote:No, and that's what I just explained, dude. 

The individual thing itself (ie starvation) does not serve a greater good. 

God not divinely intervening every time anything bad would happen to any person, I assume, serves a greater good. Both in allowing humans to have free will and in allowing the natural processes of this natural world to run their course. I assume there is a valid reason why He allows for both of those things, even though they sometimes cause suffering.  
It's still awful presumption

Quote:I assume this IS the maximum goodness, if all things are considered, which we can't consider since we haven't seen all of eternity.

(edited due to misreading the first time lol)
We would never accept that logic in any other circumstance.So it's special pleading .
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb




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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by Amarok - May 26, 2018 at 1:11 pm

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