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Thread #132816   Message #3008114
Posted By: michaelr
15-Oct-10 - 07:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Subject: RE: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
This is a quote from a film the name of which I forget. Ben Kingsley utters the following:

It's not hard to do the right thing -- it's hard to know what the right thing is. But once you know, it's hard not to do it.

That's ethics. You got `em or you don't. Morality (by which I mean a set of externally defined rules of conduct) doesn't come into it.