RE: Why be good?
May 27, 2015 at 4:54 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2015 at 4:59 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(May 26, 2015 at 7:29 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: [...]
But why? If God does not exist, why be good?
Because being "good" and doing "good" things makes us feel good, whereas hurting people and generally behaving "badly" makes us feel bad. Both internally - because of empathy, and externally - because other people respond in kind.
If you don't know that - you're a psychopath/sociopath (since you don't know empathy) and a stupid one at that, if you haven't figured out the reciprocation thing. If that's the case - religion is for you. But you'd be in minority. The rest of us do just fine behaving humanely without imaginary cops, watching our every move and policing our thoughts.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
