RE: Atheism and Ethics
July 7, 2024 at 7:42 am
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2024 at 7:42 am by Lucian.)
(July 7, 2024 at 7:39 am)Angrboda Wrote:(July 7, 2024 at 7:29 am)Lucian Wrote: Why would one not want to? We have evolutionarily guides desires and wants that are moral in nature so we tend to follow those. Also, we do an awful lot of things despite there being no objective standard or goal behind the actions. The claim (not sure if you are implying it through your statement) that we wouldn’t want to act a certain way without an objective standard I think credits us with being too rational, that we analyse our actions and only proceed if certain criteria are met
There are plenty of incentives for behaving immorally. That's why.
Yep, agreed on that. But there are also plenty of incentives to not. Just because there are incentives doesn’t mean we will choose them. Sure, we could; and probably will in some situations, but the absence of a belief in an objective standard isn’t what does that. I have yet to go on a theft spree since becoming an anti-realist and can’t see it happening. If I were clever I would get away with it, still don’t see it happening, because I don’t want to not because there is some objective standard saying I should not