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    Default Re: Why are we not allowed to kill

    Quote Originally Posted by rasoforos View Post
    This is rather insulting. You are insinuating that without believing in a god you don't find all these crimes wrong. It is like saying that if i.e you are a Catholic then you believe murder theft etc is right. It groups a whole group of people (Atheists) and makes an unsubstantiated accusation against them and their moral codes.

    Apart from insulting it is, of course, very very wrong.
    How? I'm not saying that you are a murderer, just that murder to you is simply something that shouldn't happen because of some social balance. You don't believe that there is some cosmic right or wrong or plan - just that some things are jerky to do.

    I believe in both. In fact, I don't beleive that a religious or secular person is more or less likely to kill, just that the religious beleive that there are reasons beyond the temporal why we shouldn't kill one another.

    Are you insulted because I've said that there is no logical reason why a human killing another human is any more wrong than a bear or shark killing a human, possibly in tandem with butcher knives strapped to their heads? Face it - Universal superlatives are not the atheists strong suit, unless they are confused.

    Morality is only social pact to you, and "right" or "wrong" depends on your willingness to enter into that pact.
    Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 01-20-2009 at 17:00.
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