RE: Nihilistic Murderer
March 6, 2015 at 12:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2015 at 12:57 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 6, 2015 at 8:34 am)Spooky Wrote: Anybody can be a killer when placed in the correct circumstances. Exian said it well. They are as human as any of us.
While anyone can kill under the right circumstances, I don't think it follows that sociopaths are "as human" as any of us, if you accept that empathy is part of humanity -- which I emphatically do.
(March 6, 2015 at 9:24 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 6, 2015 at 5:59 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: I'd imagine that it mattered to them.Not anymore though. They are dead.
Hence my use of the past-tense.
(March 6, 2015 at 11:50 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: In fact I think atheists who aren't nihilists are being dishonest with themselves on some level.
So you think atheists cannot hold or make moral valuations?