ATHEISTS: Just in case you're wrong about the nonexistence of God, would the best decision be to...?

Question

drink Coke, or to drink Pepsi?

Answer 1

ooooh, tricky...but i think i'd go for coke.

Answer 2

Well just in the last two weeks, I've undergone a crisis of faith. I was a Coke man all the way, but last week I saw a documentary about the conditions in Coke bottling plants in South America, the apparent tacit support of the bottlers for right wing paramilitary groups who intimidate and even execute workers who are aiming to unionise, and the practice of regularly using child labour to harvest the sugar that goes into Coke products. I have no idea of course whether Pepsico uses the same practices, but until someone tells me as much, it's Pepsi all the way to ethical salvation :oD

Answer 3

Animals do not express morality from an innate sense of right and wrong but rather because of life or death. Being such, their actions are often mistaken as acts of chivalry or moral choices when in fact, they aren't choices at all. For the human species however, morals are arbitrary rules of conduct voted into existence by the popular majority of any given society. Oftentimes, they are deployed by a single dictator or monarch. Morals are a human construction that varies by Time, Geography and Circumstance. All of the morals we value today will someday become "outdated" or deemed "barbaric" by a future society that no longer feels the same way. Therefore, morals are rules generated by the consensus of like-minded individuals. It evolves over time as the structure of the social network evolves. It does not "improve" or "degrade" over time - it simply changes based upon the shifting desires of a given social system. Morals do not exist in some aether of matter nor does it exist in the stars or the trees. It also does not exist when a human being is alone. It only emerges when humans form a group. Thus, morals are not imbedded within us. It is entirely a social phenomenon. Today, most of those wildly different social spheres have largely dissappeared - replaced by a more or less globalized moral system whose societies are now wholly interconnected through vast trade agreements and international resolutions through the United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly. We humans self-consider ourselves to be morally justified to kill animals whether it be for food, resources or sport. Morality does not apply to other animals - it only applies to us. Should then, an advanced alien from the stars be morally justified to come here and use us for food, resources and sport? This demonstrates that morality is a relative, synthetic concept, solely for the convenience of man, rather than a universal and absolute dictum that can be arrived at by rational thought. What kind of morals would you have if you were born some 2500 years ago, into the legendary tribes of the Mayans? Would you have the morals of 21st century America which were fought over centuries of hardships and a civil war? Would you have christian morals even though christianity wasn't even invented yet? No. You would be a Mayan and believe wholeheartedly in the Mayan ways of life - even if that life was to sacrifice children to the great gods of the stars. And there would be no competing society to tell you otherwise for many thousands of years - all the way up to the 16th century when Spanish and Portugese exploration ships arrive. Child sacrifice would simply be another tradition in your own way of life that you have been taught in your own unique microcosm. Would you have been born in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Answer 4

have you considered that perhaps there is more than two choices out there, considering all the soft drinks people have come up with over the years?! See, this is where Pepsi's Wager fails.

*Drink* (to be specific, I'm drinking coke)

Answer 5

Since we're talking "just in case" scenarios, I recommend Coke with a Pepsi chaser.

Answer 6

Wild Cherry Pepsi

Answer 7

either. Company gives out free Pepsi or Coke. I will take whatever is in the fridge.

Answer 8

Coke, Pepsi's a tad too sweet.

Answer 9

Coke makes a better mixer, Pepsi is better on its own. Hope that helps.

Answer 10

I prefer sweet tea myself. But if I had to choose, I go with Pepsi. I keep trying to come up with a good reason, but it's just 'cause I like it better

Answer 11

Coke to the max