RE: Where do atheists get their morality from?
August 31, 2012 at 12:16 am
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(August 30, 2012 at 11:51 pm)Stimbo Wrote: "Where do atheists get their morality from?"I can't disagree with most of what you said. I'm not sure I agree with this idea I think you said - that animals put each other to death or banish each other for violating social mores for personal gain. Most animals don't seem to have social mores so much as patterns of reactions. Some more intelligent social animals do seem to have something like primitive culture.
Same place as you do. A combination of cultural upbringing, empathy for others, societal acceptance and other similar factors. As any other social species, humans demonstrate tolerance for co-operative members of the group and abhorrence for those who abuse and manipulate the group. That's why we applaud someone for helping an old lady across the road and lock up someone who mugs that old lady for her pension. In less enlightened times, people who violated the social mores for personal gain would have been punished by death or banishment from the group. This still happens in what we in the so-called civilised world (and America) might consider less enlightened nations, and most notably in the animal kingdom among other social species.
Any good to you?
(August 31, 2012 at 12:16 am)idunno Wrote: I think the shape of bananas is a much better argument against evolution the the CEOK, you got by attention. The shape of bananas?
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