RE: Do atheists fake egalitarianism?
May 27, 2015 at 8:57 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2015 at 9:20 am by Ben Davis.)
(May 26, 2015 at 12:49 pm)Heywood Wrote: For an theist egalitarianism is an easy concept to accept. People should be treated the same because God created them as equals. However if there is no God then there really isn't any rational reason to actually believe that all the different races, genders, or sexual orientations are actually equivalent. There might be rational reasons to pretend the are equivalent....social harmony and such...but is there rational reason to believe they are actually equivalent? It is simply too much of a stretch to think that nature, as a matter of happenstance, made all these things equivalent.
Imagine for a moment that you have to design a human society in to which you would be born, replete with all the variety that we associate with the present human condition. The catch is that you don't know exactly what situation or environment that you'll end up in. You could be any colour or gender in any locale with any skills or none.
How would you design that society?
Sum ergo sum
