Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoI think believing things without evidence is intellectually lazy. Atheism is the default position. I only believe in one less god than you.
Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoI think believing things without evidence is intellectually lazy. Atheism is the default position. I only believe in one less god than you.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What is the “evidence” behind moral stances?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
For me it’s at least partially based on mutual aid, something that we also see in nature. Helping other people helps me.
That said, I’m not sure why you’re so convinced that morals need to be based on anything. I have empathy, that means I don’t want harm to come to others. It’s really that simple.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Of course you do, you were made that way, we all were! Religion/belief in a set of principles in an axiomatic, non debatable way just provide good guidance, a handrail in case your eyes get too big and, idk, you end up president of the free world and Raytheon wants to bribe you and you want a new yacht so you push for war in a far away land. Our nature can only go so far, for the rest of the time you will need a code and something to keep you accountable to it that’s bigger and outside of yourself, and Abrahamic monotheism helps us do that.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
You’re right, only nonreligious people have done bad things. Do you really want to go down that route? Religion is responsible for more death and destruction than any other force in human history.
I actually find it kind of offensive what you’re implying here about my morality.