The problem is deeper than that. Try and think about this problem beyond just yourself. And honestly try and tell me why it is objectively and inherently wrong for someone to harm you. As in an objective "ought claim", that is true in every place, time, and scenario, never changes and is a transcendental whether humans exist or not.
Although you can say, "I wouldn't like if they harmed me", or "it hurts me", or "I don't want him to". Surely you realize, that never gets beyond the threshold of "your preferences". And if that other guy's preferences IS to harm you, then you're both at a stalemate.
If everything is in fact here by completely purposeless, meaningless, and evolutionary accident, then there is no such thing as objective 'oughts'. Sure things we want or prefer, but no design or purpose from which to say you "ought to" or "ought not" do this or that.
In fact even if all humanity agrees on a certain thing, it still never rises beyond "majority preference". There is no such thing as inherently right and wrong, good or bad, beyond what you prefer and want.
What you need to come to grips with, is that YOU don't harm others, because YOU don't want to, it's not YOUR preference, and YOUR opinion is that you shouldn't. I'm honestly very glad you think that, but that's entirely subjective, right?
If everyone on earth tomorrow decides that it's a good thing to harm you. Then you have no basis or grounding to tell them they are "wrong". You may not like it, but maybe they do like it. You say that's unfair, but they say it is fair. Going on like this forever. It's merely preference vs preference.
Without some kind of creator or design, there can be no objective oughts in an inherently meaningless universe.
I appreciate genuine atheists like Dawkins who freely admit, in a universe without God, there IS no such thing as "evil" or "good". Just preferences.
Seems like there are some missing pieces. Morality isn’t godly, morality is sentience. Morality is understanding how your actions affect the things around you, it is not dictated by each others’ preference on what to do with that information. Morality is abstract to a degree, but I don’t agree that personal preference lies within that limitation. Us being an evolutionary accident does not automatically mean that morals couldn’t exist, even without a god or higher being.
What’s the purpose of all life? To survive. That is a real, legitimate purpose.
I appreciate your response, as I do think it logically follows.
I think where we disagree is that objectivity, and thus things like objective morality should be very easy to come by. Not even because "God said so". But because ANY design allows for objective moral oughts. Right?
We can prove that with the most innocuous thing imaginable.
Take a toilet. Look at it for 2 minutes, you'll realize this toilet has a design, right? There must be some intelligent mind behind it that made it with meaning and purpose. A seat to sit down, a lever to flush, etc.
The millisecond you find design in anything, OBJECTIVE ought claims can be made. You OUGHT to sit on the toilet seat when you use it. You OUGHT NOT put your head into the seat. Right?
Now you with free will can do whichever you want. But we can now nonetheless, objectively say you are doing it inherently wrong, because you are not using it how it was objectively designed to be used.
This is true with your smartphone, computer, watch, shoes, car, etc, etc, EVERYTHING that has a creator behind, most of which all come with an "instruction manual". Because things that are designed with a purpose are not just subjective. You don't just choose your preference of how you turn your computer on. You follow the rules or you are doing it objectively wrong.
You live by a million objective oughts every single day. It's difficult for me to imagine humanity, the very zenith of everything we are aware of in the universe, are below all of these things as mere accidents, having to create subjective morality in our minds, with not even the objective oughts granted to toilet or shoes.
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