Atheism and morality (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Monday, October 18, 2010, 16:47 (5295 days ago) @ xeno6696


> Morals certainly exist in terms of how we've constructed our institutions, and despite my claim to moral contextualism on my part, I do find room for a sort of universal morality in the fact that none of us is nor ever will be "the only man on earth." However the people in a society determine what morals and laws they will live under.-The problem with is statement is much the same as the problem with the statement "science by consensus". I have said many times that I think humans have the capacity to know the difference between right and wrong, but not the capacity to do the right thing. The idea that a societal consensus can define something 'right or wrong' is utter rubbish. What society can do is make something legal or illegal, which has little if anything to do with right/wrong or moral/immoral. There does exist a 'right/wrong', but it does not lie in a book, or society, or in a legal system. It lies in the 'heart' of a person.