How do you guys figure that killing is wrong if a human being established that thought. Shouldn't there be people disagreeing, saying that you can kill whatever you wish.
2006-09-03 07:17:23 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You act as if we're some different species or something. Although we have different beliefs on how things started, we all have morals.
2006-09-03 07:20:07 · answer #1 · answered by reid296 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
First, not everone who isn't religious are athiest. Some are Agnostic, and some like some aspects of all religions without following one particular religion, and considers that possibility that god exists.
Secondly, just because one may not fully believe in god, or not belief at all, doesn't mean they feel it's right to kill everyone for no reason. It's amazing to me when some religious pepole think this, even scary. There are morals that religious people feel that god gave them, and there are morals made by humans, (humanistic morals.) And those morals doesn't mean anarchy, that would be illogical.
Thirdly, some atheists do feel we should just kill people based on their own corrupt logic, just as some religious people feel that we should kill people based on there own corrupt logic. Being religous or not has nothing to do with how wicked or good your morals and out look on life is.
By the way, for those who are religous who feel they would be lost without religion, and feel we should just kill everyone if their religion is wrong, are some of the kinds the people to worry about. Because they don't use there own mind to figure out what is good or bad to do in life, they need a religion to tell them. And without it, some become mindless savages, devoid of compassion.
2006-09-03 07:26:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What is right and what is wrong doesn't depend on the precepts of some higher authority. Someone who only does good because the higher authority [say God] has ordered so, is like someone who doesn't go around shooting everyone who they dislike because they know they'll end up in jail.
Tell me, for instance, what is wrong about pre-marital sex? Does it hurt anyone? I don't think so. Still, for many religious people, it is wrong. Why? Because a higher authority has stated it so. As simple as that.
I'd dare to say, those who we choose what is right and wrong according to our personal conscience, are much freer than those who do this or that according to what a book or a priest says. Let me make this clear, I mean no offence at all.
How killing is wrong, for example? Simple. Would you like to get killed? I doubt so [unless you're some kind of teenage angsty freak lol]. Consequently, it is not to be done to others. However, the rule may change, if for instance, killing one person you can save thousands.
Consequently, there is no absolute good or wrong, just like there's no absolute truth.
2006-09-03 07:30:15 · answer #3 · answered by Kazeed 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
religion and morality are actually two different things. which is why you can have 6 different religions with different beliefs, but the same basic morals. it's also why you can have something that in a religion is 'right', but morally it isn't. same for something that is legally 'right' but morally isn't. Just because someone doesn't believe in an anthropomorphic being that created the word and controls it from some higher plane of existence doesn't mean that they don't believe in or have morals. Kind of like all those folks saying that the Harry Potter books are satanic because they talk about magic as being okay and don't mention God and the Church and they miss that the lessons of right and wrong (the morals) taught in the book are basically the same as Christianity.
2006-09-03 07:26:07 · answer #4 · answered by jayne r 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ethics and morals are not constrained to religious concepts. The debate among those who are interested in ethics and morals can enter dialog independent of religion. In fact, those who offer ethical justifications founded in religion are handicapped because they are limited to faith and not reality.
I suggest that you look into Deterministic Philosophy for a different perspective. Or, some approach this from a species perspective in that each species has a unique set of attributes and ethics derives from that set of ethics. In the case of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, being societal gregarious is an attribute and from that reality societal ethics can be develop.
There are many other Non-religious ethical and moral philosophies.
For your information, I have been an Atheist for nearly 50 years. During my life I have had medical emergencies where I have flat-lined (died) twice, and that has not altered my perspective even a little.
2006-09-03 07:29:57 · answer #5 · answered by Randy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, how did people like John Stuart Mill decide what was right or wrong?
It all depends on your philosophical beliefs...
Ultilitarians believe things to be right if it best for everyone, yet they conform to no realism...
It's a sketchy area, but ethics can be defined by many means... e.g. Kantian, situation, utilitarianism etc..
It's a fascinating area! I loved studying it :).
2006-09-03 07:20:32 · answer #6 · answered by lil_els2000 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Let me ask you something - If you found out for a fact there was no god, would you think killing is OK?
There are people who believe in god who think killing is fine as long as it's god's will, is that OK?
People who believe in a god do most of the killing in the world
2006-09-03 07:30:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A person is not necessarily amoral just because they are an atheist or agnostic. Moral values don't have to be based upon religeous beliefs. There are plenty of moral atheists and plenty amoral god fearing people in this world and vice versa.
2006-09-03 07:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by I'manalienfrog 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Common sense and the culture you live in help determine these things. Are you trying to say that if there were no God you would do whatever you want? Are you one of those people who only tries to do the "right thing" if other people are watching?
2006-09-03 07:20:36 · answer #9 · answered by mollyneville 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
morals, values- you dont need to believe in a god to be able to justify whats right and wrong
actually if you think about it some use their religon to justify their warped sense of whats right and wrong-
if this doesnt help email me i am an athiest-
2006-09-03 07:27:33 · answer #10 · answered by greeneyedmommy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anyone should be able to know that killing another person is wrong. Anyone should be able to know that harming another person is wrong. It shouldn't take religion to make someone not kill a person. It should be: treat everyone how you want to be treated. That is common ethics.
2006-09-03 07:23:20 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋