To: SeekAndFind
You are going to die, and so am I. What does it matter in the whole scheme of things if I help you achieve your ultimate destiny today or 80 years later? Even if there is no God, I value my own life and would prefer to keep living out my natural lifespan. A society that does not have rules against murder would very quickly spiral out of control.
Rules protecting life are a neccesity for any functional society.
To: Blackacre
Rules protecting life are a neccesity for any functional society.
And what is the intrinsic value of a functional society? You function for a few million years and then you cease to exist.
If a mad man (even the word "mad" is now relative with Dawkin's philosophy) wants to destroy the world with nukes, I see nothing that is intrinsically "evil" in what he wants to do.
Everything is simply a matter of preference if we subscribe to atheism.
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