Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wrong"?

[Tsun Tsu]

OP, your poll is missing the I don't know option.

In your specific question of is rape always immoral, many people here feel very uncomfortable coming up with a scenerio where rape would be the moral thing to do. For good reason. I am part of that crowd. So instead, I present moral delima's to highlight how what is moral can be very fuzzy. LINK. The link doesn't include a rape scenerio, but such a scenerio can be created. I doubt anyone here is willing to come up with one.

Hi and thanks for writing!
Im truly glad you bring up how this may "feel". I think its honest to ask yourself why you "feel" this? Of course it is uncomfortable trying to come up with a way to justify rape and pedophilia. There isn't a justification, which is exactly why I am compiling this. It is also a tool to help the atheist to look past a grudging bias and have an honest look at "universal and absolute morality"... If it exists, it came from something other than matter and electrical impulse.

Its hard to do because not only id there no justification, but we have a real and living "conscience" that rises up to protect these innocents, and is repulsed by these ideas... and this too goes beyond chemical reaction and matter.

WE MUST accept the fact that either universal laws are absolute and always true, or we have to justify rape and child abuse as being sometimes actually good... and we just cant do that.