RE: Atheism and morality
July 1, 2013 at 5:44 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2013 at 5:45 pm by simplexity.)
Most people seem to have the same morality because we are all a part of the same species and we are mostly all self aware and have empathetic abilities. All people are all relatively similar, whether it be environmentally, genetically, what have you. We have evolved to be suited to live in a society, because not having a society, we would not be able to survive and/or advance. One person without enough resources cannot survive very well on their own, and especially the next generation would never survive. Our ethics are not based on some instruction from a being, but instead it is a combination of social contract, empathy, and being self aware. There is only an illusion of it being instructed by someone. Morality is subjective. Ethics is objective, because it is based on humanity at large.
You need to define very concisely what you mean by 'instruction', for this discussion to even have a chance of continuing. Many things in reality operate with the illusion of having some instruction behind them and they don't. They operate because of fundamental patterns, which by no means need to be intelligent.
You need to define very concisely what you mean by 'instruction', for this discussion to even have a chance of continuing. Many things in reality operate with the illusion of having some instruction behind them and they don't. They operate because of fundamental patterns, which by no means need to be intelligent.
