RE: Atheism and morality
July 6, 2013 at 5:12 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2013 at 5:13 pm by Inigo.)
(July 6, 2013 at 5:06 pm)Rahul Wrote:(July 6, 2013 at 5:02 pm)Inigo Wrote: Talk about instincts all you want. Jack doesn't care. He wants to disembowel a prostitute and he has nothing to lose. What reason does HE have to not disembowel a prostitute if there is no god and an afterlife?
Personal abhorrence?
Unfortunately there are people that are born with no conscience. We lock up those people when they harm others.
He doesn't have any "personal abhorrence". And he's about to die, so locking him up hardly disadvantages him. What reason does HE have not to disembowel a prostitute?
(July 6, 2013 at 5:10 pm)simplexity Wrote: Oh, just shut up. I'll give Jack plenty of reason not too by locking him up. He doesn't have a reason otherwise, and yes, that's just how it is.
He's about to die, thicky! Can't you read? He's about to die and the one thing he really wants to do before he dies is disembowel a prostitute. Does he have any reason not to? Would he be irrational to refrain?