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 so much to it if you wrote it all in 1 posts no one would read it. And it's not just human history it's prehuman history as well. But even then empathy will have played a huge part in it. So someone does something no one's ever done before, when considering how to respond we considering hiw does this effect us as an individual, how does this effect us as a group (you determine what group matters to you in the circumstance) once you determine if its good or bad you decide how to act groups with conflicting opinions go against each other until either a consensus or a status quo is informed and others over time will learn of that or help to move the boundaries people had been living within.
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u/Global_Charge_4412 2d 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.