Message from @FreshWholeMilk
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as I said relative morality, by saying it's not a morality system it dodges the question of why not. No hard stance on any immoral behaviour as everything is adaptive behaviour.
At least Christian values stamp out the undesirables like murderers and thiefs while a secularist tries to reason their existence and justify the acts.
Evolution provides a moral system
Survival requires teamwork
and then u have this brainlet
yes
Your conflating a description of real systems with a moral judgement which it’s not. It so happens that to my knowledge Dawkins is a moral relativist but he I believe he would still likely decry infanticide and he certainly seeks to punish murderers and thieves. It is not a requirement that non-religious people be moral relativists by any means and ayn rand for example prompted an objective morality based on self interest.
Evolution doesn’t provide a value statement as to whether action is right or wrong only that shit that reproduces tends to reproduce. Teamwork in and of itself is not evidence of a moral system as people can frequently work together to achieve things they freely admit is unethical
Additionally wizard you can at the same time understand why someone took a certain course of action while stating that action was wrong
I'm saying the process itself does
which is true
It provides a dangerous perspective where morality is presented as something arbitrary. You expose the perspective of a murderer and suddenly everyone is a bleeding heart murderer that had his own deep reasoning for why he did it. We call it motive and it doesn't justify the murder yet something like this is presented as kill or be killed.
This is a fact
Why is survival good? We’re all just bags of meat who will be forgotten soon
Good thing nobody thinks like that
I for one keep arguing that just surviving is no way to live
Yeah, because you don’t actually believe what you espouse
No, I have no idea what i believe
You say you believe in Darwinism or atheism or whatever but you don’t act like you do
You act like there is purpose
atheism isn't a belief system
oh it is
Tell me more
You believe there is no God. Unless you’re agnostic
because u can't have no belief system, you mind operates in hypotheticals and precognitions constantly
Correct
it's the absence of a specific belief system. There is no ideology behind atheism itself
it is not a guiding force
it has no set of principles or rules on its own
it is simply the absence of a certain mindset
You say that but you don’t believe it
scientism moved in recently
If you did you wouldn’t be arguing for atheism
and it's cringier than any established religion
You're right, I don't
anyways
What tenets and principles does atheism have?
Even you would say none
it's essential to your argument
muh peer review
You don’t believe in God do you?
No