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Thread #132816   Message #3012578
Posted By: Mrrzy
21-Oct-10 - 07:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Subject: RE: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Motive = motivation = emotion = motion so there has to be good and evil in the animal kingdom: eat survive reproduce = good, starvation predation = evil. Pleasure mediates good, pain mediates evil.

Only with deity can the unethical become moral. How else can it be justified?

By this you can see I tend to think of ethics as transcending society and morals as being woven of its fabric. Metaphorically.