(January 10, 2013 at 4:31 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(January 10, 2013 at 4:21 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: Well I suppose it might flesh out some opinions on if someone really had the power to end everything and stop suffering should they. There could be some that would think why not; it might be interesting as an experiment on how if Theists were taken out of the picture the rules of morality would be arrived at. Maybe its a bit too extreme but it might open the subject. If someone can think of a less dramatic one that could achieve the same result then we could switch to that instead.
I'll save you some time on your experiment: morality has nothing to do with theism, or religion in general. Religion co-opts existing morality, which is down to evolution and societal health, and claims authorship over it, when that is simply untrue.
Wow I really wish I had written that, soooooo true. You could say the same about nationalism and politics too.
The only downside is that we still need common law so in that rightful condemnation of squatting rights to authorship, you still don't want that to be hijacked by any anarchist or fascist.
