You can't be moral without God.

[Eudaimonist]

In the 20th Century China and USSR which were both anti-God killed the most people. Guess who defined the morality in those places.

Guess who defines religious morality. It isn't a God or gods.

I don't think that human beings as the source of morality is what leads to atrocities. It's generally the idea that there is a "higher good" above and beyond the good of human individuals, whether that "higher good" is a class, a nation, a leader, a race, the environment, or a god. Whenever anyone speaks of a "higher good", watch out.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Isambard]

1.) How do you determine what is good (right) and what is bad (wrong)?

Its whatever I can get away with

2.) How did you acquire your individual moral ethics?

After reading extensively about ethics and coming to the realization that its all bull

3.) If you have ever knowingly committed an immoral act:

a.) How did you feel afterward?

b.) Did you do anything to right the wrong, or did you go on as if it never happened?​

N/A
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4.) Are there exceptions to your personal rules of conduct? If so, please provide an hypothetical example.

None

 

[cantata]

1.) How do you determine what is good (right) and what is bad (wrong)?

I don't. I have my sympathies to dictate my own actions, and to tell me what I would like others to do and not to do. Although I often use moral language to talk about these sympathies and feelings, I don't believe in objective morality. I just find that the language of ethics is more helpful and forceful than "I would prefer that you didn't do that."

2.) How did you acquire your individual moral ethics?

Well, my parents had a big influence on my ethics - they've always encouraged me to empathise and to think as reasonably as possible about everything. So now I try to think about ethics in those terms.

As I've got older I've come to formulate some relatively unusual opinions about ethics based on my desire to be internally consistent in my views. I suspect that my ethics will continue to change as I get older. At the moment I am still trying to work out the correct balance between my own interests and those of others.

3.) If you have ever knowingly committed an immoral act:

I've certainly committed acts that I regretted committing, and that I was sorry for committing.

a.) How did you feel afterward?

Well, sorry. Guilty. Usually confused.

b.) Did you do anything to right the wrong, or did you go on as if it never happened?

I've tried. Reparation is a difficult thing. Honest, sincere apology is a good start, I think.
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4.) Are there exceptions to your personal rules of conduct? If so, please provide an hypothetical example.

Not really, since I try to have a reasonably situational approach to ethics.