<p>This is more directed towards atheists, agnostics, and satanists. </p>
<p>What do you think about morals?</p>
<p>Do you think there is right and wrong? If so, what is the basis for deciding if something is right or wrong?</p>
<p>Does love and hate exist?</p>
<p>Are humans ''sinners''?</p>
<p>morality is very important, and imo there should be a mandatory ethics class in high school (studying schools of thought, not dictating what you should believe)</p>
<p>morality is independent of religion, so dont mix the two</p>
<p>but it seems you have already done so, calling out that athiests and agnostics to be the ones who need help with morality, as if the “religious” people haven’t slaughtered many themselves</p>
<p>I don’t really get what religion has to do with this. I’m agnostic, but I believe in many christian values that aren’t particularly religious.
Right and wrong are only values that society has established since people came together to show people what’s good to do and what’s bad. I don’t really think that the concept of right and wrong really exists- in raw nature, it’s just to survive. if that means killing another animal, then so be it- we slap a tag of “right” or “wrong” on an action, but it doesn’t mean that it’s actually something “right” or “wrong”.</p>
<p>I think that religion should definitely be involved in this because if not so, there is no basis for deciding which is right and wrong, People’s opinion can vary greatly, for example; lets say that a group of people thinks that there is nothing wrong with stealing, but another group thinks that its definitely wrong. How do you decide which is right?</p>
<p>Also, i did not say that atheists and agnostics are the only ones that need help with morality. I asked, do they believe in morality and by what basis.</p>
<p>Yes I believe in morality, but I also believe morality is dynamic; it changes every year. I will continually reconsider morals as time progresses. I think it’s foolish to have an established set of morality.</p>
<p>“How do you decide which is right?” Whether it benefits society or not? Religion (I don’t have one) is certainly not the only way to judge what is right or what is wrong. In my opinion, society has to be continually analyzed to determine what is appropriate and what is not.</p>
<p>Subjective morality does exist. There is right and wrong. However, my right and wrong might be different from yours. Love does exist. Hate does as well.</p>
<p>Humans “sin”. But just like no one is perfectly good, no one is perfectly bad either. Everyone is nice to someone.</p>
<p>And religion has nothing to do with any of this.</p>
<p>I think morals exist as a result of human encounters, desires, compromises, cultures, etc. as opposed to something divinely inspired or bestowed upon humanity by another sentient being. </p>
<p>I don’t personally subscribe to absolute morality, but I think there can usually be a socially accepted view of right and wrong in a particular context. </p>
<p>Love and hate exist just as much as any other emotion. Which is to say, yes.</p>
<p>I believe that humans usually act in their own self-interest, and that this practice sometimes runs into disagreement with societal notions of right and wrong.</p>
<p>What do you think about morals?
They’re concepts invented by humans and do not exist outside of our perception. However, that does not automatically render them useless or inaccurate.</p>
<p>Do you think there is right and wrong? If so, what is the basis for deciding if something is right or wrong?
No absolutes, only a better and a worse.</p>
<p>Does love and hate exist?
No, they’re only words which have meaning for most people, which is important.</p>
<p>Are humans ‘‘sinners’’?
Don’t believe in sin. All people do bad things though. And good things.</p>
<p>I’m an atheist, btw.</p>
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<p>Morals derive directly from religion. They are not a religious concept, in the strict sense, but many morals we believe in are directly influenced from religion.</p>
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<p>Where do the nonreligious get their morals from then? Where do majority athiest countries like Japan get their morals?</p>
<p>^From the religious people</p>
<p>^ Not true. I don’t look to religion when determining ethics. I judge each action relative to its impact to society or the world. I don’t need any “sacred words” to determine for me what is right or wrong.</p>
<p>It’s hard for some religious people to understand that ethics don’t have to originate from religion because they have lived by their religious rules for most of their lives, so it’s not intuitive to them.</p>
<p>Some morals do come from religion, but most come from instinct and conscience. </p>
<p>I would really hate to think that the only thing keeping humans from being savages is solely religion.</p>
<p>And by this logic, if you built a brand new society without religion, no one would have morals.</p>
<p>What do you think about morals?
They are dynamic modes of perception and decision making.</p>
<p>Do you think there is right and wrong? If so, what is the basis for deciding if something is right or wrong?</p>
<p>Some things are right or wrong depending upon mass consensus, while others are based upon moral consensus within oneself.</p>
<p>Does love and hate exist?</p>
<p>There are many forms of love and hate, these are very broad concepts.</p>
<p>Are humans ‘‘sinners’’?</p>
<p>Sin is a concept derived from an inherent basis of right and wrong as dictated by certain religious schools of thought.</p>
<p>Also, religion was created as a way to justify morals, morals were not created from religion.</p>
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<p>Who originally demonstrated the standards for right and wrong?</p>
<p>This is more directed towards atheists, agnostics, and satanists.</p>
<p>I’m Christian.</p>
<p>What do you think about morals?</p>
<p>Like I stated above, I think that morals are influenced by religion. I do, however, think that most morals come from our conscience and instinct. (Killing human, bad <– I don’t need religion to tell me that)</p>
<p>Do you think there is right and wrong? If so, what is the basis for deciding if something is right or wrong?</p>
<p>Yes, there is right and wrong. Right and wrong is subjective, based on your culture and religion. I believe that if it’s not wrong for you, and it doesn’t hurt anyone one, disturb the peace, or infringe on other’s rights, it’s fine.</p>
<p>Does love and hate exist?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>Are humans ‘‘sinners’’?</p>
<p>Yes, I have never seen a perfect human.</p>
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<p>The first human being, I suppose. But they acted on what they, themselves, thought was right and wrong. What does this have to do with morals?</p>
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<p>Everything…?</p>
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<p>How is the impact relevant? What obligation do you have to other people? Why?</p>
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<p>That’s a pretty inane thing to say. Sin is really just doing “bad things.”</p>
<p>I would really hate to think that the only thing keeping people moral is a strand of genetic information that might be weeded out the second it stops serving an evolutionary advantage. </p>
<p>My belief, as an atheist, that all morality has a religious origin. That doesn’t mean a Christian or Buddhist or Hindu origin, but all morality must be based around the principle question of what is the greatest good, and this greatest good will take a divine aspect in any given person’s worldview. </p>
<p>Those who say only ‘fools’ would believe in an absolute morality are calling Socrates, Plato, Jesus, Gotama, Muhammad, Aquinas, Kant, Spinoza, Schopenhauer and Dostoevsky “fools.” Congratulations on your complete historical and philosophical ignorance, not to mention unfathomable pretentiousness.</p>