Do you wish there's a god?

[Acrobat]

No, it doesn’t. There are perfectly natural, evolutionarily-grounded explainations for why we feel love for babies. It’s really not a brain bruster as to why living things care for their offspring.

Few things, I also accept evolution, appealing to evolution in defense of nihilism, doesn’t get much mileage as an argument. Evolution isn’t the source of the potential for lumps of matter to love, have eyes, reproduce, consciousness, etc... It only actualizes such potentials.

Secondly, I didn’t say our love or empathy for babies. I was referring to our perceptions of the wrongness of torturing innocent babies just for fun, as something truly wrong, and not subjectively wrong, like we might say of our taste in food.

So I guess this universal understanding that harming babies is not so universal after all.

Human beings across cultures and societies share a core morality, respond similarly to a variety of moral questions. So yes there are some universal understanding when it comes to right and wrong. It should also be said recognizing right and wrong, is not the same as doing what’s right or wrong. A thief may know it’s morally wrong to steal, yet steal.

Secondly the practice of child sacrifice, or murdering babies, operates on delusions and false beliefs to justify it, like scapegoating.Those practicing it have to deny or conceal the innocence of their victims, to mask the wrongness  of performing such actions. Meaning that their beliefs, operate similar to other delusional and false beliefs, like holocaust denial, or flat earthism, and not like people who have different taste in clothes. Operate like denials of reality, rather than differences in subjective opinions.

It makes less sense of our desire for meaning, truth, goodness, etc..

How so?

Which of these cases, would make a better case for nihilism:

A reality in which we didn’t desire truth, meaning, and goodness. Just creatures looking to survive and reproduce, and not creatures like us, who seek something to live for.

Or a reality in which we do posses such desires.

Which of these realities would appear more meaningless?