RE: Atheism and morality
July 6, 2013 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2013 at 1:55 pm by Rahul.)
(July 6, 2013 at 1:37 pm)Inigo Wrote: And once again, instructions can't just exist - they need to be issued by someone. And to be inescapably rationally authoritative the person issuing them would need to have control over our interests in an afterlife and be vengeful. A person like that is what's known as a 'god'. Deal.
It's not instructions. It's instinct.
I've noticed a Cicada Killer wasp flying around my house recently. Yesterday I found a burrow it had dug.
The females will dig a burrow in sandy soil about 10-20" deep. Then it will make chambers. For female eggs it lays it will collect 2 or three Cicadas for it to feast on. For male eggs it will only collect 1. Because the females are much larger than the males of their species you see.
What is "instructing" it to do that? It's not like it's mom taught it this.
It's just instinct.
(July 6, 2013 at 1:51 pm)Inigo Wrote: 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.
Baseless assertion. Prove it.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.