RE: Atheism and morality
July 7, 2013 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2013 at 5:32 pm by paulpablo.)
Quote:Something isn't wrong just beusae you say so, or because you don't want others to do it, is it? YOu can't seriously be saying that the reason it is wrong to hurt others is because YOU don't want to hurt others or want others to hurt others???
Quote:The wrongness of hurting others has nothing to do with you and your tastes. It is wrong to hurt others because MORALITY instructs us not to. Happily, most of us don't want to either. But even those few among us who really like hurting others, or who sometimes have an urge to, do something WRONG if they do so. They have REASON not to hurt others, whether they realise it or not, whether they want to or not. That's the thing about morality. That's what's distinctive about morality.[/code]
If you want to rape someone that doesn't make it right to do so. And by the same token the wrongness of rape doesn't amount to you just not wanting to rape someone.
If I want others to rape someone, that doesn't make it right for them to do so. By the same token, if I don't want others to rape someone that isn't what the wrongness of it amounts to.
No because morality is a word, it hasn't instructed me at any time. My parents my teachers and my own empathy towards other humans is why I don't hurt people all the time, I do believe people who play their music too loudly on public transport or some greedy people should be hurt, but I wouldn't hurt my own family members, my feelings of who should be hurt are just a combination of learned cultural behavior, and my general animal instincts, the same as every other human out there. There's no need for a god in any of this no matter how you define words or how many times you repeat yourself.
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