Atheism and morality

[simplexity]

Yes we are and yes it is.

Neener, neener, neener.

I've never been "instructed" to be moral. I've felt inclined to be moral(altruistic) because it makes me feel better about myself as a person

If you think something is "instructing" you to be nice, you better seek therapy before it starts "instructing" you to hurt people.

Well, not everyone has a moral sense. If atheism is true that is as much as can be said for altruism. IF you like it - if you're into altruism - then great. But if you hate it, then, well, you have no reason to be altruistic.

Yeah, and those people are called sociopaths, because they lack at least a part of the moral module in their brain which gives off certain signals to your conscious mind when you think about the outcome of a specific act. If you will, the moral circuitry is actually 'instructing' you too be more likely to go for a certain outcome because picking the incorrect one will send the wrong signal, or the signal to think about the other outcome will not reveal itself at all. The moral agent is a part of the sub-conscious circuitry of the brain itself.

See this article:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/03/29/sc...ty-center/
We are hardwired to think a certain way. Turning off certain portions of the brain literally causes people to lose their morality. Scary, but true.

And maybe it is just that we do not have the freedom to think in a non-moralistic way, at least most of us.

There is no one instructing us to think a certain way.

We feel the outcomes as wrong since our brain does effect our entire body as well. We are hardwired to think a certain way therefore our morality is hardwired as well.

We don't just judge altruism to be altruism. We judge it to have moral goodness. It is that feature that I am wondering about.

We judge something to have moral goodness because we are hardwired to think that way.