Why should you be able to tell anyone what is right and wrong? You are just a random chance happening.
2007-03-02 04:01:46 · 19 answers · asked by The Angry Stick Man 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's wrong because I wouldn't want someone to do it to me, and because I don't want to live in a society where murder occurs.
Please tell me you don't think it's wrong just because a book says murderers go to hell.
2007-03-02 04:04:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
From a totally secular point of view, murder is wrong because you are ending the life of another person against their will and denying them the freedom to live. You are also denying society at large the benefits that the individual may have contributed as well as causing emotional pain to the victims friends and family. There are many, many secular and humanistic reasons to work together for the benefit of society and mankind as a whole besides some invisible big guy in the sky that I can't prove supposedly said so in some 2000 year old book.
2007-03-02 12:10:41 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Murder is wrong because life is valuable.
Theists really don't seem to understand the basic notions of morality, do they?
Did you know that it's also wrong to tell lies about evolution, such as the one that evolution is "just a random chance happening"?
2007-03-02 12:10:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Murder isn't wrong because I say so, but because it hurts people.
The only people who claim that morality is based on a person's dictates are the theistic moralists. They claim that a God determines what is good or evil; atheists generally deny that anyone has such authority, even a hypothetical Creator. The problem, if anything, is with the theist's view, not the atheist's: the theist must justify WHY his specific God is a moral authority in any meaningful way, must explain how defining morality in terms of "whatever God wants" doesn't render morality itself arbitrary. If God said "Thou shalt not eat", then eating would be immoral, by your standards. In contrast, atheists do not think that a harmless act is wrong just because someone--even the atheist himself--says so.
My morality is not derived from an authority's commands. It is derived from my love and respect for my fellow man. Nothing more than that is necessary.
2007-03-02 12:04:50 · answer #4 · answered by Rob Diamond 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Hey! I'm a Christian, and I could answer that one on behalf of the atheists.
Just the principle of personal survival is enough to make scertain things wrong. As they people don't want to be murdered themselves, they form communities with principles protecting property, life, etc., they can do that without any belief in divinity.
God makes my life meaningful, Christ gives me hope, the Holy Spirit gives me strenth. But a lot of good laws could be made with no real sense of right and wrong coming from external influences.
2007-03-02 12:08:38 · answer #5 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Simply proclaiming "murder is wrong" works well for setting the moral baseline in young children, but has no sophistication. Who says that all murder is wrong? For that matter, who is defining "murder"? Who is judging?
People getting this excited over a blanket statement frightens me. It smacks of extremists.
Extreme Atheist; extreme Theist; extreme Agnostic. They all frighten me.
2007-03-02 12:25:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is wrong because society says it is wrong, but even in the absence of societal definition, it is wrong under every moral code, regardless of source. Getting around the tautology of murder being wrongful killing which makes it wrong, there is the simple nature of empathy. If you wouldn't want something to happen to you, you shouldn't do it to someone else.
2007-03-02 12:10:25 · answer #7 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Murder is wrong because it does not promote the continuation of the species or the preservation of self.
Honestly, for most things, all you have to do to know what is wrong or right is consider whether you would like to have it done to you or not.
2007-03-02 12:07:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Society is our greatest strength as a species, and murder breaches the harmony of that society. As such, we have evolved a moral compass irrespective of belief - we know murder is wrong as it is hardwired into our brains (except those with defective brains).
2007-03-02 12:05:43 · answer #9 · answered by Mawkish 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yup. Murder is wrong just because I say so.
2007-03-02 12:08:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋