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As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?

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As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
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RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
October 29, 2022 at 10:47 am
(October 15, 2022 at 4:47 pm)Ahriman Wrote: All morality comes from religion. I base my morality on my knowledge and understanding of religion, even though I don't participate in religion myself.

I reject morality as derived from a capricious divine imperative and argue that it actually emerges from the interaction of individuals or small groups to solve a number of recurring problems.

This establishes a class of moral facts on a par with natural facts about the world.
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#52
RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
November 23, 2022 at 2:34 pm
(October 15, 2022 at 2:22 pm)Gentle_Idiot Wrote: Personally, I just read philosophy books and base my morality on them. They make more sense to me than the Bible.

How about you?

Even though this is a loaded question, I'll answer it.  The same place I get almost all of my knowledge:  induction, logic applied to observed facts.
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#53
RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
November 23, 2022 at 2:56 pm
I got my moral guidance from my parents. Seems to be working so far.

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#54
RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
November 23, 2022 at 4:12 pm
Yeah, no, still pulling that shit straight outta my ass.
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RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
November 24, 2022 at 6:25 am
(October 15, 2022 at 4:47 pm)Ahriman Wrote: All morality comes from religion. I base my morality on my knowledge and understanding of religion, even though I don't participate in religion myself.

At one time, I had no idea how to treat my slaves and which children I should murder. Then I read the Bible, and it’s all cleared up for me - now, I’m all moral and shit.

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RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
November 24, 2022 at 6:48 am
I get all my morality from a guy that I met in the woods one day. He had very hairy legs and tiny feet and two bumps sticking out of his forehead that were kind of pointy. I think he went by the name Old Nick. Anyway, he explained to me all about morality.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
November 24, 2022 at 10:55 am
Actually my morality comes from Final Fantasy.
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RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
November 24, 2022 at 11:04 am
Well, we knew that fantasy had something to do with it.
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RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
November 24, 2022 at 11:19 am
(November 24, 2022 at 11:04 am)Angrboda Wrote: Well, we knew that fantasy had something to do with it.

Yeah that's what I just said. Your point?
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RE: As a nonreligious person, where do you get your moral guidance?
November 24, 2022 at 11:28 am
(October 15, 2022 at 10:35 pm)Belacqua Wrote: We may have shed the religious justifications, but a lot of our morality is directly descended from religion. 

I'd be willing to bet that human ideas about how to treat one another far predate the human invention of religion.

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