RE: Why 'should' atheists be moral?
November 28, 2014 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2014 at 2:34 pm by Exian.)
I don't think you can detach individual benefits from societal benefits. Empathy and theory of mind are good for the community--a good community is good for the individual. Empathy is not a disadvantage to our current way of life. It would certainly be a disadvantage to feel bad for killing and looting if your individual survival depended on such actions, but then that's not a society; that's not a way of life in which morality would be brought up.