RE: Why be good?
May 27, 2015 at 2:10 pm
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2015 at 2:14 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(May 27, 2015 at 1:28 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(May 27, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: There's at least one honest atheist here...
https://atheistforums.org/thread-32313-p...#pid906588
Wait. Because someone admits to having murderous rage, they're the person you point to as being honest? Do you think I'm being dishonest if I say I have no desire to murder anyone?
Have you ever participated in Gossip?
(May 27, 2015 at 1:33 pm)Jenny A Wrote:My point is, if you consider lying for instance, to be immoral, then there is not one person who is moral, whether christian or atheist. The difference is, one realizes this...(May 27, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: There's at least one honest atheist here...
http://atheistforums.org/thread-32313-po...#pid906588
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?
