(November 20, 2012 at 10:18 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: I don't subscribe to pseudo-theistic beliefs like "human life is special".
A scientific understanding of the world around us shows that we all boil down to atoms or molecules, just in different arrangements. We came about through accidental processes of evolution, and soon we will be annihilated.
There is nothing that makes us special other than our own delusions.
You are so obtuse. I'm an atheist and I find human life pretty special. Not for any reason but because I discover that I have even more empathy for fellow humans than I do for most other animals, and I really like other animals. There is no justificatory reason for it, it is simply a brute fact about what matters to me. Do you think we consciously decide what matters to us? If so you must really believe in some pretty radically free will.
There is no religious basis for this regard I have for human life and there is no reason to deny what matters to one viscerally for purely intellectual considerations. One needs no God to make sense of our very common very high regard for human life.