Atheism and Ethics

[Lucian]

I would like to know, are you guys really suffering that much? The word has been used many times in this thread, how much is it affecting you, personally?

I am not personally, but then I don’t think people are being grossly immoral towards me. I also think that suffering is a scale, so even if I accept the concept as suffering as a reason for many moral views it wouldn’t mean it would have to be overly bad.
I think another thing to bear in mind is that if moral views were grounded on the basis of suffering caused, it wouldn’t have to mean that that suffering is a universal invariable consequence of the act. If something had a propensity to cause suffering, it could still be seen as immoral on such a scheme even if I don’t experience that consequence personally.
As per my post above though… I don’t think suffering is the whole of it so am not trying to defend that view