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The difference between ethical atheism and nihlism is that ethical atheists have more faith
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RE: The difference between ethical atheism and nihlism is that ethical atheists have more faith
(March 1, 2013 at 3:51 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You are repeating the main point of the post. Exactly, what makes people more important than dolphins? Or ants, for that matter? Why should human civilization exist at all, why not be a primitivist? Why not believe that one race is superior to another, or create a nationalistic morality?
Nothing makes us better. Seriously. We're all just collections of atoms facing a completely indifferent universe.

(March 1, 2013 at 3:51 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The most important question in the world is how to be a good person. You are not really getting to the bottom of the issue. Nothing that you have written scratches the surface of the debates surrounding moral skepticism. Because you have a nicer sounding name for moral skepticism, called existentialism, does not answer the question. What makes people more important than dolphins. Or in another way: How do you know that Jewish people aren't inferior to whites? Why shouldn't one group enslave another group?
What is a 'good person'?


You get your morals from the culture you're raised in. The morals in the US are going to be very different than the morals in China (for instance, individualism vs "for the greater good").
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RE: The difference between ethical atheism and nihlism is that ethical atheists have more faith - by Annik - March 1, 2013 at 3:56 pm

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