Atheism and morality

[paulpablo]

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

Are you a moral nihilist? There's a difference between being hardwired to sense that something is the case, and it actually being the case.
What if a sense of god was found to be hardwired into some people? Would you say 'ah, well we've discovered that god does exist'?? No, of course not. So, if our moral sense is just a quirk of our brain chemistry that allowed our ancestors to breed more successfully (which is all it would be if atheism is true) then morality does not exist, does it? There's a sense of external instructions, but no actual external instructions just brain chemistry.

Why does morality have to be external instructions?