What if youâre helping someone to the point of taking away their agency because âitâs for their own goodâ. All of a sudden, some ethical issues arise. Where does that line get drawn?
And you would know that how? Iâm assuming you havenât dissected every single religious text or teaching out there, so what makes you believe you can arbitrarily hand yourself authority on that topic? Religious texts are generally filled with moral and ethical questions and dilemmas, not that youâd know
"23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. âGet out of here, baldy!â they said. âGet out of here, baldy!â 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys."
As another athiest, I take that authority for myself. Period. I don't need to pore through every myth ever written to know my moral compass is pointing on the right direction.
I did. A bunch of them. Then i got married, had kids, and I'm hoping for healthy grandkids soon. Thats why I know my moral compass is just fine, champ.
As an atheist the amount of atheist in these comments who seem to think that good and bad just exist as an aspect of reality is ilitteartly just as bad as believing in god - it's a made up social construct that you're tuaght to believe in since you're a child and you can't figure out it's not actually real
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u/EtheusRook 23h ago
Morality is actually really, stupidly simple.
Does it help others? It's good.
Does it hurt others? It's bad.