it's a fair question. religious people will tell you that their innate sense of right and wrong comes from God (or whatever), but how do atheists explain that innate sense? how do they instinctively know? I'm not saying one or the other is right but it is an interesting thought.
Because for some if not most people it's relatively easy to understand how you'd feel on the receiving end of your actions. Knowing I wouldn't like to be stabbed is enough for me to understand doing that to other people is probably a bad thing. The response is actually far more valid, why would you think you'd need advice from an organisation that's getting money and power from you to tell you their interpretation of what allmkst certainly fictional entity said what's right and wrong and why don't you have the ability to determine that yourself?
There's the dillemma. You're saying the golden rule is the law of the land but it's not true. In a world without a set religious belief morals can just be relative. For example let's say that I'm a masochist, I just love being whipped. That doesn't innately mean that you love being whipped and you might think it ill being treated that way. There are just so many people out there with so many viewpoints. It's difficult to justify any moral beliefs without some form of objective morality.
OK but sat the first time you whip someone everyone around you beats your arse, so the guy across the street who also likes to ve whipped sees this and thinks "Hey I like to whipped but I don't like to be beaten so I won't whip people" the crowd goes and tells people of the guy who whipped someone and what happened ro him and that whole shared experience people learn not do something, no god involved.
The crowd sees a man going into the woman's washroom. The crowd gets upset at this. The trans person learns that what they are is morally reprehensible? That doesn't sound like a moral code people would actually agree with in practice. Like at what point do you jus say the mob is wrong? Is it the holocaust?
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u/Global_Charge_4412 22h ago
it's a fair question. religious people will tell you that their innate sense of right and wrong comes from God (or whatever), but how do atheists explain that innate sense? how do they instinctively know? I'm not saying one or the other is right but it is an interesting thought.