What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[Salacious B. Crumb]

Do you have any answers for me in regards to my original post?

Here’s my answer again, in case you missed it:

Human beings determine what is good and bad, and it’s subjective, and changes over time.

So if murder is wrong, where did this law come from? If this is a universal truth, where did this truth come from and who/what determined it to be what it is?

What you’re most likely trying to do here is say, god implanted this notion of morality into us, which is just dishonest. For the most part, people want to be treated well, so we had this crazy idea that maybe if we treat others with respect, that we will be treated well in return. People don’t want to be hurt, so they try not to hurt others. There are some exceptions (murderers, rapists, etc.), because, apparently god didn’t implant this morality you’re suggesting into the minds of everyone. As for the minority of these ‘bad’ people, they actually just want to feel good as well, but do it in a more sadistic way (by most people’s standards). People want to feel good. If people want to get along with their family, they are kind to them, that’s also how we operate best as a civilized society, because that’s how we survive in a society the best. Don’t you feel that if everyone was good to each other, and we had laws protecting the good people, that that would be the best way to coexist?

There were times, 10’s of thousands of years ago when humans, and our cousins were killing each other quite often. Finally, I think they slowly realized as a majority, that they didn’t want their family members dying anymore because, they loved them, so laws started to appear to protect the lives of our species (refer back to my original answer up top). Because, again, humans just want to be happy, it’s not god giving us morality. You can take a look at the old testament, and see what god was commanding people to do. Sorry, I don’t get my morality from a book written by people, whose morality was fucked up beyond imagination.

Nothing complicated in what I'm saying here. The why be good garbage argument, and the where do morals come from argument need to just die already. It's common sense.