(March 21, 2015 at 10:05 am)whateverist Wrote:(March 20, 2015 at 11:49 pm)daver49 Wrote: Historically speaking, extinction seems to be the way of life, why buck the system? Burn more coal! Dump radioactive waste in the ocean! Develop more and more genetic variations of diseases that we can use for biological warfare! It's only natural...
That is pretty disappointing. Is that the veiled expression of an old, naive theist chestnut? You know, the one that assumes atheists, having turned down the bible's goodness are now morally rudderless. Since all we see is the workings of nature where you prefer to see the hand of god, what reason would we have to object to the continued practices of humanity even if it hastens our own extinction?
But what is natural is not what we exalt, it is merely what we suppose. As with the invention of vaccines we don't always except what is natural. The correct opposite of natural is man made, not supernatural. Morality comes from the reflected upon moral responses of human beings, and probably by degree in any number of other mammals, birds and other creatures. But that which we are in a position to do something about is our own moral impulses.
But if it makes you useful you just keep praying to god. The people you think have no morality will be busy doing what can be done to the degree that it can be done.
I think we should follow your dog into the garden...