RE: Why be good?
May 27, 2015 at 1:33 pm
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2015 at 1:34 pm by Jenny A.)
(May 27, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: There's at least one honest atheist here...
http://atheistforums.org/thread-32313-po...#pid906588
(March 24, 2015 at 7:08 pm)Judi Lynn Wrote: And yeah, I don't commit murder because I AM afraid of the death penalty. That and I obey the laws because Prison Orange isn't my color. I have a list of five people who I would happily off right now if I knew that I could get away with it. So your argument is invalid.
Really? You think that most people don't commit murder because of the death penalty? I'm sure that's true in some cases, but most people don't commit murder because they've never wanted to. And more because they know it's wrong. If law were the only reason people didn't murder, there would be many more unsolved murders.
(May 27, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: I think we can all agree that lying and adultery are also immoral, there just (generally) aren't any laws against them. How many are guilty of those?
Do you equate murder and lying on the moral scale, because I, and I think most people do not. Not all moral infractions are equal. Not to mention the fact that adultery still happens where it is illegal.
Lying is illegal under a variety of circumstances: testifying under oath, fraud, false advertising, etc. They all happen anyway. And creationists lie like no group I've ever seen. Is lying for god okay?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
