Should the government raise taxes on the rich?
If you think the laws of the bible should be adopted/enforced by the state, then you are incredibly…
Explain morality without God. Do it. Why does it exist? Do it.
Every person has their own personal sense of what is "right" or "wrong" based on their own personal values and ideals, and they use those to make decisions in life. Morality is not an objective thing, it's subjective to each person.
It exists because we evolved as social creatures, who express strong emotional and interpersonal characteristics. Things that harm each other, like murder, were disadvantageous, and thus we grew to perceive those things as "bad". That is why many other intelligent, social, non-human species show similar behaviors, while most other creatures do not. As we further evolved and developed societies, more social behaviors came into play, like theft, and we had to constantly grow our sense of moralities into what we eventually have today.
There is literally nothing in the universe that requires a god to explain. That's literally what science is for...
@TruthHurts10110mos10MO
What if murder became advantageous? Do you release Hitler did the Holocaust to perpetuate evolution, for the benefit of the species. Evolution creates EVIL things like that.
@VulcanMan6 10mos10MO
If you think murder is advantageous, then you would commit murder, which is exactly what some people do...that's why it is subjective. If morals were objective, as you keep suggesting, then everyone would think the same things, but obviously they don't.
Secondly, what Hitler did was called "eugenics", which is quite literally described as: "the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Sir Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, euge… Read more
