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Bleeeeep
reply to post by puzzlesphere
With no true good or bad, there is no remorse or rights to ponder. You can do whatever pleases you while disregarding any negative emotions.
Bleeeeep
With no true good or bad, there is no remorse or rights to ponder.
Bleeeeep
You can do whatever pleases you while disregarding any negative emotions.
Bleeeeep
About your examples: I was not asking a loaded question by asking "how do you justify it", I only wanted to know how, while expressing that, whatever it was, whatever the justification is, it was an emotional thing. There is no justification without saying that something is good or bad - thus nonspiritual atheists use and depend on the very system that they deny. And to that I ask, why do that? It is irrational/illogical to practice what is denied - but people keep trying to give me rational and logical answers, where there are none without the use of the very system they deny.
Psychopathy (/saɪˈkɒpəθi/) (or sociopathy (/ˈsoʊsiəˌpæθi/)) is a personality disorder characterised partly by enduring anti-social behavior, a diminished capacity for empathy or remorse, and poor behavioral controls
If whatever it is is okay, then there is no need to detach from it.
I want to know what you think - not how pretentious you can be.
You say "we" as if their is something to admire about collective idiocy.
And you're even brass enough to set up a strawman about a man who sets up strawmen. wtf?
If you do not want to bring your understanding to the post, then don't, but do not send me to read pages and pages of hyperbole about ant and ape social behaviors.
This is the on topic understanding I have taken from your post - if I am wrong, feel free to respond and correct me.
Bleeeeep
reply to post by Bluesma
I used the word to express that if there is no bad or remorse, then there is no such thing as psychopath. If the world had no bad, it wouldn't create psychopaths, it would destroy them - they can't exist without a bad thought. They would be good Samaritans - everything would be.
bad guy - bad = guy
A psychopath has no natural repulsion from causing harm and suffering to others, so then a substitute is necessary- an external conscience-entity.
That is what I mean by religions push forward ideas which create a need/market for their product.
It is also why when I hear.read comments like the one further up, in which a person claims that without their fear of God, they would be dangerous, I want to say, "Please, keep your fear of God then! For the sake of others around you!"
puzzlesphere
reply to post by Bleeeeep
It's "absolute" only when contextualised within a situation, then only so far as the scope of the situation allows for. Without a situation/context the ideas of right and wrong are non-existent.
You're trying to make things black and white, and disregarding the whole idea of context.
It's obvious from your strict standpoint in this thread (that morals for atheists only come from pleasure... which is silly) that you believe an atheist has no framework for morals, so you keep trying to attribute their sense of right and wrong to personal gain/pleasure... which is disingenuous if you are truly trying to understand the atheist viewpoint... rather than just judge in an insidious and round-about way from your own viewpoint, with leading questions.
That is the umpteenth time in this thread you have posited those exact same, heavily biased questions (looks very much like trolling). You have been given many answers, and then counter answers that very clearly define how "right and wring" work, regardless of a god or not, from the atheist, spiritual and religious viewpoint, yet you are still pushing the idea that atheists are following something they don't believe in when they use a framework of right and wrong to make decisions...
Empathy is not purely about pleasure... it is about sharing experience.
When i empathise with a good friend over the loss of a loved one, there is no "pleasure" in it, I am sharing their pain.
Think about it man.
Bleeeeep
Context is built into the clause, or stipulation, of right and wrong.