So beginning with the idea that the appropriate standard of conduct is:
"Treat others as they (the others) would wish to be treated."
Do you ever have any trouble following this even though this is the standard you think should be followed?
I know that no matter how you word the golden rule, i.e. as above or as Jesus put it, and that no matter how much I think with my mind that it is the appropriate standard of conduct, sometimes I have a hard time practicing the golden rule. Now a Christian world view provides a basis for this.
I would like to know how an atheistic world view provides for this (whether for you yourself if you have the same problem as me, or for me as I am telling you I have this problem). If the golden rule has its basis in evolution and chemical reactions in the brain, etc., it seems like it would then be easy to follow because always following it would seem to be the natural result of the evolution and chemical reactions. From an atheistic point of view, why is it so hard to practice the golden rule all the time?
"Treat others as they (the others) would wish to be treated."
Do you ever have any trouble following this even though this is the standard you think should be followed?
I know that no matter how you word the golden rule, i.e. as above or as Jesus put it, and that no matter how much I think with my mind that it is the appropriate standard of conduct, sometimes I have a hard time practicing the golden rule. Now a Christian world view provides a basis for this.
I would like to know how an atheistic world view provides for this (whether for you yourself if you have the same problem as me, or for me as I am telling you I have this problem). If the golden rule has its basis in evolution and chemical reactions in the brain, etc., it seems like it would then be easy to follow because always following it would seem to be the natural result of the evolution and chemical reactions. From an atheistic point of view, why is it so hard to practice the golden rule all the time?
