RE: We should take the Moral Highground
April 6, 2012 at 4:27 pm
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2012 at 4:30 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 6, 2012 at 1:05 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: I've mentioned the social contract before as you do later in this post....Anyone who denies the social contract is committing hypocrisy. How can you condone the treatment of another that you would not tolerate on you? Being unrepentantly evil toward our fellow sentients is logically inconsistent.
Any 'social contract' requires both agreement and enforcement. What if I don't agree? Who's going to make me obey? Suppose, my only goal is to get what I want and evade punishment. I do not care about the well-being of anyone but my self. Sure that makes me a hypocrite. But why is it inherently wrong to be duplicitous? I don't believe in evil so what am I supposed to repent. You say I have to be logical, because it's the right thing to do. What makes it right?
I would like to remind you that the OP is about athesim having the high moral ground. If you want the high moral ground, then you must do more that show theism to be inadequate. You must present a valid non-theistic basis for morality and demonstrate that it is superior. Otherwise, atheism is utlimately amoral. Or at least not inherently any more moral than theism