(July 6, 2013 at 1:48 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(July 6, 2013 at 1:47 pm)Inigo Wrote: So that we'd always have reason to comply with the commands.
If I tell you to do something you don't necessarily have reason to do it. If morality tells you to do something you do, even if you don't want to.
I assume we have reason to do what is in our interests. If there is a god and an afterlife and the god has control over our interests in that afterlife - and is vengeful - then her instructions to us are instructions we all have reason to comply with, even if we don't want to.
Why would we have to have a reason to comply with the demands outside of our interest in our current lives?
If there's an afterlife then your current life doesn't end with your death. It continues. You don't get to not exist.
So, you do not just have mortem interests, you also have post-mortem interests.