Atheists and Agnostics: If humans are organisms that originated?

Question

accidentally and will cease to exist at physical death,
then what does it matter if people destroy each other and destroy the world in which we live?

Some have made the inference that I ascribe to this posture of stance, however; I put this out as a question and not as a personal statement.

Answer 1

It matters because we all owe it to humanity and future generations to make life better for them. We do not need God to know this, this should simply be a commonly accepted goal of humanity

Answer 2

Because it is such a beautiful place, and there are beautiful, kind people who live in it, you just have to look. I'm looking forward to being a great dad, that is one of my greatest goals for my life, partially because both my father and grandfather were horrible people, and I have something to prove deep down inside myself before I will let myself die. There are others with dreams out there, that is what we live for: our dreams, our hopes, the chance to make a difference.

Chipper: Evolution is a process that takes millions of years. The main guiding force, while there are many, behind evolution is natural selection. Humans are not in the hands of nature anymore, so the leading force of evolution in humans is effectively turned off.

Sickblade: Morality should could from the social values and ties we develop throughout our lives, not from fear of punishment or hope of reward. We are a special species, more than any other we have the ability to learn, to reflect on ourselves and better ourselves as individuals.

Upsman: We did not evolve by chance at all. While the theories of what caused the initial energy release of the universe are still not complete, this does not change the fact that our universe has been expanding at a speed faster than the speed of light for long enough to make it infinite for all logical purposes. Life is not a random chance, it is something that is bound happen when the right conditions are met in the universe.

Answer 3

Atheist right here. Honesty and kindness are the two maximum extreme human features. basically approximately another ethical subject falls below those categories. We ought to attempt to no longer harm somebody,place or factor. Punishment of crime must be desperate by skill of the point of harm carried out the two actual, emotional, textile or financial. i'm no longer for abortion yet i'm professional selection as long because it is done interior a particular time of being pregnant that's it gradual in the 1st 3 months. i'm against the death penalty in user-friendly terms because of the fact there are people on death row who've been shown harmless. I easily have faith that there are some crimes deserving of death. we can not make the regulation be conscious to three and to no longer others. each little thing else is ones very own employer. As Steve reported.. Immorality is illogical. we ought to constantly attempt for a bigger society. actual the inspiration of all incorrect doing or harm is selfishness.

Answer 4

as an Agnostic i don't know what happens (if anything) after the body dies but i fail to understand what my personal ethics has to do with my mortality.

humans will kill each other. the more of us there are the more we'll kill each other because humans are territorial creatures that always have and probably always will fight over territory and resources. the more scarce resources become the more disputes there will be. and often "God" is used as justification for bloodshed.

as for destroying the world. well, that's more an arena for religion .. especially the Christian religion whose whole goal is ultimately for the world to be destroyed so that rewards in heaven can be bestowed upon the faithful. it's the Christians who are more apt to shrug their shoulders and say "so what" about the destruction of the Earth's Eco systems. the worse condition the Earth become the closer are the "end times" and Jesus' return.

Answer 5

It's like Bankotsu's standard, live your life any way you want with no regard for others and you'll be happy, after all, if we have no soul and just some organisms that with the right amout of will power can be overthrown completely then all that "moral" garbage doesn't exist and people should stop bothering themselves with it. (broad question) if you had a choice, would you participate in group sex with people you don't know, if you say no, then why? Sex has been proven to give a lot pleasure and you're going to let your "consciece" tell you to not because it makes you feel bad? Get over that way of thinking, you'll be much happier.

Answer 6

We are alive. We like living. Life is better if everybody gets along and doesn't try to hurt each other. It's not too hard to understand.

Alternatively, if you are a believer - say a Christian - then what is the purpose of doing anything? It seems that as long as you accept Jesus, love Jesus and believe in Jesus then you don't have to do anything. You aren't judged by actions or deeds. Why not just sit on the couch and watch religious broadcasting until god calls you home?

Answer 7

It has been my experience that there are many Christians who don't care if we "destroy the world" because "God is going to destroy it soon" anyway. Atheists and agnostics at least recognize that this is the only world we've got. They recognize it even more if they have children.

Did your mother never tell you to put your toys away?

Answer 8

The truth is it don't matter to the world a damn bit only to the individual. Why do you think the world has never known piece since man existed. And don't group them damn fence straddlers with Atheists.
BB, Boop Oop A Doop!

Answer 9

Isn't that wonderful? Atheists and agnostics aren't destroying the world at all. And we didn't need religion - we're inherently moral. In fact, I'd wager that just about anyone could give up their religion, and still be a moral human being.

Answer 10

It doesn't matter. If there is no God there is no such thing as right and wrong.
What does atheism tell us about life? It tells us that everything came from nothing and it came about just by random chance. 'Nothing' just 'blew up' or should we say 'started expanding' like a balloon(the big bang). It expanded for 15 billion years and is still expanding. Fifty years ago no one knew you or I were coming. All of a sudden we appear on this earth and 99.99999% of the world still doesn't know we are here and will never know. We live our 70 years on this earth in a life that is filled with problems, one after another. There's no God to help us in our problems. All there is out there is matter, molecules in motion and cold dark space. We're just 'cosmic orphans'. We are the accidental by-product of nature. A result of matter plus time plus chance. There is no real reason for our existence. With no hope of immortality our life leads only to the grave. Our life is but a spark in the infinite blackness, a spark that appears, flickers and dies forever. Compared to the infinite stretch of time, the span of mans life is but an infinitesimal moment, and yet this is all the life he will ever know. If life just ends at the grave then it makes no difference whether one has lived as a Hitler or as a Mother Theresa. Since one's destiny is ultimately unrelated to one's behavior, you might as well live as you please. You die, go into the grave and the worms eat you. That's it. You're gone. Mother Theresa isn't sitting up there on a cloud looking down at Hitler and saying "you should have been more like me".There's no more consciousness. Why live like Mother Theresa. She spent her whole life living in a garbage dump because that's where the people she ministered to lived. Hitler had fame, women, money, lived in mansions, had power and total authority, was loved in his own country. Then when he knew the allies were closing in and his glory days were coming to an end he took a gun and blew his brains out. He had nothing to lose. He lived to be almost 60 and he had everything. If there's no God there's no final accountability. You tell me who had a better life. One hundred years after we're dead, very few, if anyone, will know that we ever lived. Then the universe will go on for another 15 billion years and die a heat death. Mankind is a doomed race in a dying universe. Because the universe will eventually cease to exist, it makes no difference whether it ever did exist. Mankind is no more significant than a swarm of mosquitos or a barnyard of pigs, for their end is all the same. No wonder Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of America's most famous legal minds(and also an atheist), once said that he saw no difference between a man, an ant and a rock. The same blind cosmic process(evolution) that coughed them up in the first place will eventually swallow them again. Atheism says that man is just a lump of slime that somehow evolved into rationality.

Answer 11

You have evolution all wrong - it's not an "accidental" process.

You are saying that you only behave well because you are afraid of God (the great serveillance camera in the sky). That's a pretty weak point and just shows your own moral weakness.