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Do atheists even need an objective moral system?

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Do atheists even need an objective moral system?
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RE: Do atheists even need an objective moral system?
December 31, 2012 at 7:08 pm
(December 31, 2012 at 6:06 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote:
(December 31, 2012 at 6:02 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: ... Intuitively I think some aspects of morality ARE objective, we seem to be able to agree that using a live human baby as a hockey puck for the fun of it would be wrong, and I think agreement on extreme cases points to something, but I don't see that as proof....

Yet for some, "intuition" says otherwise.

Which is one reason why I don't see it as proof.
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RE: Do atheists even need an objective moral system? - by Mister Agenda - December 31, 2012 at 7:08 pm

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