Nothing wrong with being agnostic. I'm an agnostic atheist, myself.
People survive by having functional societies. Some arrangements of society function better than others. Some behaviors foster a more functional society and some don't. We see that other social animals enforce norms not much different from our own.
We seem to have an inherent ability to empathize with the situations of others, an awareness of reciprocity and fairness. Evolution has selected those traits because they help us function better in groups. We build on those natural tendencies with reason and tradition and codified laws.
Game theory shows that some ways of interacting are objectively better in helping us achieve our goals.
I don't see a need for nonhuman agency here. I think your understandable intuition that rules are given by rulegivers has misled you in the same way that the idea that design is given by designers has misled creationists.
Rules and design can be arrived at organically, by trial and error over long periods of time. It's an observable fact.
Doesn't mean you have to be an atheist if you don't wanna, though.
People survive by having functional societies. Some arrangements of society function better than others. Some behaviors foster a more functional society and some don't. We see that other social animals enforce norms not much different from our own.
We seem to have an inherent ability to empathize with the situations of others, an awareness of reciprocity and fairness. Evolution has selected those traits because they help us function better in groups. We build on those natural tendencies with reason and tradition and codified laws.
Game theory shows that some ways of interacting are objectively better in helping us achieve our goals.
I don't see a need for nonhuman agency here. I think your understandable intuition that rules are given by rulegivers has misled you in the same way that the idea that design is given by designers has misled creationists.
Rules and design can be arrived at organically, by trial and error over long periods of time. It's an observable fact.
Doesn't mean you have to be an atheist if you don't wanna, though.
