(May 27, 2013 at 11:08 am)dazzn Wrote: i don't believe that morals exist.
Of course they exist. You are embodying all the worse assumptions uninformed theists have about the morals of atheists. Morals exist and are subjective in nature but there just so happens to be large areas of agreement. We don't need gods to make sense of morals, and there is no need for them to be objective.
Are you also a nihilist regarding what you eat? "Taste is an illusion so just give me anything that won't kill me." Both your gustatory preferences and your moral proclivities are brute facts about yourself regardless of how you acquired them. Should you examine them critically? Yes, of course. Should you assume they are arbitrary and interchangeable? No, because they're not. You can go ahead and eat liver and lima beans but you can't decide to enjoy it if you really don't. Just because your preferences are subjective doesn't mean they aren't real. There is an enormous amount of who you are that is not up to you, that is discovered rather than decided.
