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Morality
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Morality
Alright guys I'm going to  Dead Horse

But I really want to know everyone's personal perspective on some of this.   

Richard Dawkins stated this that there is no good, no evil, DNA just is and we dance to it's music.  Agree or disagree on that piece?

What is your opinion on some of these other famous quotes on morality?

When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality… Christianity is a system, a consistently thought out and complete view of things. If one breaks out of it a fundamental idea, the belief in God, one thereby breaks the whole thing to pieces: one has nothing of any consequence left in one’s hands.

- Friedriche Nietzsche (atheist), Twilight of the Idols p.12

We have not been able to show that reason requires the moral point of view, or that all really rational persons should not be individual egoists or classical amoralists. Reason doesn’t decide here. The picture I have painted for you is not a pleasant one. Reflection on it depresses me ...
Pure practical reason, even with a good knowledge of the facts, will not take you to morality.
- Kai Nielsen (atheist), “Why should I be moral?” American Philosophical Quarterly 21, 1984: 90

Outside human desires there is no moral standard.
- Bertrand Russell (atheist), “What I believe” p.62, 1957

In this naturalistic worldview, when you state something is good/evil, right/wrong, isn't that just pure subjective opinion that ebbs/flows with societal/cultural acceptance and personal opinion?  If so, on what basis can one judge any act as wrong/evil both in different cultures/societies or different eras without it merely being personal preference and thus have no grounding in truth.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.
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Morality - by Kingpin - May 17, 2023 at 4:27 pm
RE: Morality - by Fake Messiah - May 17, 2023 at 4:35 pm
RE: Morality - by Kingpin - May 17, 2023 at 4:42 pm
RE: Morality - by HappySkeptic - May 17, 2023 at 5:03 pm
RE: Morality - by Fake Messiah - May 17, 2023 at 5:13 pm
RE: Morality - by Angrboda - May 17, 2023 at 4:56 pm
RE: Morality - by no one - May 17, 2023 at 5:07 pm
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 17, 2023 at 5:23 pm
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 17, 2023 at 6:52 pm
RE: Morality - by Paleophyte - May 17, 2023 at 10:05 pm
RE: Morality - by Deesse23 - May 18, 2023 at 3:02 am
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 18, 2023 at 7:34 am
RE: Morality - by Fake Messiah - May 18, 2023 at 7:41 am
RE: Morality - by Angrboda - May 18, 2023 at 8:24 am
RE: Morality - by Kingpin - May 18, 2023 at 9:45 am
RE: Morality - by Deesse23 - May 18, 2023 at 11:00 am
RE: Morality - by Angrboda - May 18, 2023 at 11:05 am
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 18, 2023 at 11:13 am
RE: Morality - by Angrboda - May 18, 2023 at 11:19 am
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 18, 2023 at 11:28 am
RE: Morality - by Neo-Scholastic - May 22, 2023 at 11:07 pm
RE: Morality - by emjay - May 23, 2023 at 5:48 am
RE: Morality - by Belacqua - May 23, 2023 at 6:32 am
RE: Morality - by Angrboda - May 23, 2023 at 6:59 am
RE: Morality - by Neo-Scholastic - May 23, 2023 at 8:00 am
RE: Morality - by Deesse23 - May 23, 2023 at 8:48 am
RE: Morality - by Neo-Scholastic - May 23, 2023 at 3:33 pm
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 23, 2023 at 4:46 pm
RE: Morality - by Neo-Scholastic - May 25, 2023 at 10:40 pm
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 26, 2023 at 5:15 am
RE: Morality - by Mister Agenda - May 26, 2023 at 8:55 am
RE: Morality - by arewethereyet - May 23, 2023 at 4:59 pm
RE: Morality - by Angrboda - May 23, 2023 at 8:17 pm
RE: Morality - by Deesse23 - May 24, 2023 at 2:41 am
RE: Morality - by Angrboda - May 23, 2023 at 10:11 am
RE: Morality - by Pat Mustard - May 27, 2023 at 8:32 am
RE: Morality - by Fake Messiah - May 23, 2023 at 7:39 am
RE: Morality - by Deesse23 - May 23, 2023 at 8:33 am
RE: Morality - by emjay - May 23, 2023 at 11:08 am
RE: Morality - by arewethereyet - May 23, 2023 at 5:03 pm
RE: Morality - by emjay - May 23, 2023 at 5:38 pm
RE: Morality - by arewethereyet - May 23, 2023 at 5:49 pm
RE: Morality - by emjay - May 23, 2023 at 6:33 pm
RE: Morality - by emjay - May 24, 2023 at 4:36 am
RE: Morality - by arewethereyet - May 24, 2023 at 1:13 pm
RE: Morality - by Deesse23 - May 23, 2023 at 8:29 am
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 23, 2023 at 5:51 am
RE: Morality - by Paleophyte - May 18, 2023 at 5:58 pm
RE: Morality - by Mister Agenda - May 19, 2023 at 9:21 am
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 18, 2023 at 10:00 am
RE: Morality - by emjay - May 18, 2023 at 12:17 pm
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 18, 2023 at 12:31 pm
RE: Morality - by arewethereyet - May 18, 2023 at 6:02 pm
RE: Morality - by brewer - May 18, 2023 at 6:30 pm
RE: Morality - by Astreja - May 18, 2023 at 10:00 pm
RE: Morality - by Gawdzilla Sama - May 18, 2023 at 10:02 pm
RE: Morality - by Angrboda - May 18, 2023 at 11:04 pm
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 19, 2023 at 4:00 am
RE: Morality - by Fake Messiah - May 19, 2023 at 4:26 am
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 19, 2023 at 7:46 am
RE: Morality - by Fake Messiah - May 19, 2023 at 8:37 am
RE: Morality - by Kingpin - May 19, 2023 at 8:55 am
RE: Morality - by emjay - May 19, 2023 at 10:46 am
RE: Morality - by Kingpin - May 19, 2023 at 8:58 am
RE: Morality - by A. Secular Human - May 22, 2023 at 4:28 pm
RE: Morality - by emjay - May 22, 2023 at 6:24 pm
RE: Morality - by Angrboda - May 22, 2023 at 8:26 pm
RE: Morality - by Anomalocaris - May 22, 2023 at 11:07 pm
RE: Morality - by emjay - May 23, 2023 at 4:44 am
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 19, 2023 at 9:03 am
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 19, 2023 at 9:34 am
RE: Morality - by Angrboda - May 19, 2023 at 10:03 am
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 19, 2023 at 12:35 pm
RE: Morality - by Pat Mustard - May 19, 2023 at 1:57 pm
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 19, 2023 at 3:17 pm
RE: Morality - by Pat Mustard - May 20, 2023 at 3:19 am
RE: Morality - by HappySkeptic - May 21, 2023 at 1:57 pm
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 21, 2023 at 7:29 pm
RE: Morality - by Neo-Scholastic - May 22, 2023 at 10:52 pm
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 23, 2023 at 4:08 am
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 23, 2023 at 8:00 am
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 23, 2023 at 5:12 pm
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 23, 2023 at 7:26 pm
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 23, 2023 at 8:31 pm
RE: Morality - by arewethereyet - May 23, 2023 at 8:48 pm
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 26, 2023 at 9:54 am
RE: Morality - by Anomalocaris - May 26, 2023 at 10:42 am
RE: Morality - by HappySkeptic - May 26, 2023 at 11:02 am
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 26, 2023 at 11:42 am
RE: Morality - by Neo-Scholastic - May 27, 2023 at 3:11 pm
RE: Morality - by arewethereyet - May 27, 2023 at 3:31 pm
RE: Morality - by Neo-Scholastic - May 28, 2023 at 11:20 am
RE: Morality - by arewethereyet - May 28, 2023 at 1:37 pm
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 27, 2023 at 3:45 pm
RE: Morality - by Neo-Scholastic - May 27, 2023 at 6:24 pm
RE: Morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 28, 2023 at 3:09 pm
RE: Morality - by Pat Mustard - May 29, 2023 at 1:50 am
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 28, 2023 at 11:39 am
RE: Morality - by Angrboda - May 28, 2023 at 12:46 pm
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 29, 2023 at 8:06 am
RE: Morality - by Fake Messiah - May 31, 2023 at 6:38 am
RE: Morality - by The Grand Nudger - May 31, 2023 at 6:48 am

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