The Struggle to do Good

[brokenreflector]

To turn you currently weak argument into a strong one, you'd have to first exhaustively list every single possible naturalistic force that would lead to you stopping your behavior.

I've already addressed this.

If evolution is more or less true, and if it's not guided by a moral agent, and if we're the products of evolution, then it makes little sense for me to possess this urge to not look at nude photos of unmarried women. To be clear, I do have a sex drive and I do want to look at pornography, but there's this underlying current (i.e. urge) beneath that drive telling me not to and that it's wrong. Why would an unguided and natural process that increases the survivability of species instill such an urge? That makes very little sense.

Also, I've grown up during a time when sexual images, acts, and talk are widely disseminated. Society isn't influencing me to not look at pornography. It's actually influencing me to look at it. Yet, I still have this urge to not look at it.

So if this urge isn't from nature or society then that seems to point to something transcendent and in Christianity it's called the Holy Spirit.

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First, I never mentioned masturbation in my original post, so I'm not sure where that came from.

Second, after careful introspection, I can honestly say that this urge to not look at pornographic material isn't from society. In fact, society seems to be trying to influence me to ignore this urge that I have. The media is full of sexual content, innuendo, and people telling others that there's nothing wrong with pornography or masturbation (since you guys brought that up).

Let me add however that this is my own experience. I'm sure there are others who have been brought up in very religious households or who were raised during a time when sexual promiscuity, porn, and masturbation were considered morally wrong.

If you’re watching porn and not masturbating, you’re doing it wrong.

Boru

I never said that.

Dayum. The reading comprehension of the average poster here is very poor.