RE: WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER...
January 2, 2015 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2015 at 12:31 pm by Faith No More.)
(January 2, 2015 at 9:26 am)Bad Wolf Wrote: I swear, theists just stick their fingers in their ears when we explain how morality is actually formed. We get our morality from our environment, our family, our friends but also our empathy. Something that every human is born with, excluding psychopaths. We are capable of recognizing something bad and imagining it happening to us or someone we love. Therefore we understand and we don't do these things to other people (steal, rape, murder etc) and we also help out. For example, neither I or any of my family has had cancer, and yet I donate monthly to Cancer Research UK. No god is needed to explain morality. And i'm not even going to get into the evolutionary side of it because I know Rondee would rather chop off his ears then accept that.
Empathy is not something we're born with. It is mostly formed when we are children by the bonds we have with our parents. By nurturing the emotional connection between parents and children the parts of our brain that are responsible for empathy become more developed, and that is how we really need to approach our moral issues.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
