Message from @FreshWholeMilk

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2019-01-20 21:37:11 UTC  

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.

2019-01-20 21:43:12 UTC  

Evolution provides a moral system

2019-01-20 21:43:18 UTC  

Survival requires teamwork

2019-01-20 21:43:34 UTC  

and then u have this brainlet

2019-01-20 21:43:38 UTC  

yes

2019-01-20 21:47:08 UTC  

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

2019-01-20 21:48:17 UTC  

Additionally wizard you can at the same time understand why someone took a certain course of action while stating that action was wrong

2019-01-20 21:56:46 UTC  

I'm saying the process itself does

2019-01-20 21:56:50 UTC  

which is true

2019-01-20 21:57:01 UTC  

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.

2019-01-20 21:57:01 UTC  

This is a fact

2019-01-20 21:57:21 UTC  

Why is survival good? We’re all just bags of meat who will be forgotten soon

2019-01-20 21:57:30 UTC  

Good thing nobody thinks like that

2019-01-20 21:57:51 UTC  

I for one keep arguing that just surviving is no way to live

2019-01-20 21:57:55 UTC  

Yeah, because you don’t actually believe what you espouse

2019-01-20 21:58:09 UTC  

No, I have no idea what i believe

2019-01-20 21:58:35 UTC  

You say you believe in Darwinism or atheism or whatever but you don’t act like you do

2019-01-20 21:58:53 UTC  

You act like there is purpose

2019-01-20 21:59:01 UTC  

atheism isn't a belief system

2019-01-20 21:59:09 UTC  

oh it is

2019-01-20 21:59:12 UTC  

It obviously is though

2019-01-20 21:59:20 UTC  

Tell me more

2019-01-20 21:59:41 UTC  

You believe there is no God. Unless you’re agnostic

2019-01-20 22:00:00 UTC  

because u can't have no belief system, you mind operates in hypotheticals and precognitions constantly

2019-01-20 22:00:10 UTC  

Correct

2019-01-20 22:00:38 UTC  

it's the absence of a specific belief system. There is no ideology behind atheism itself

2019-01-20 22:00:42 UTC  

it is not a guiding force

2019-01-20 22:00:50 UTC  

it has no set of principles or rules on its own

2019-01-20 22:01:00 UTC  

it is simply the absence of a certain mindset

2019-01-20 22:01:05 UTC  

You say that but you don’t believe it

2019-01-20 22:01:21 UTC  

scientism moved in recently

2019-01-20 22:01:32 UTC  

If you did you wouldn’t be arguing for atheism

2019-01-20 22:01:33 UTC  

and it's cringier than any established religion

2019-01-20 22:01:34 UTC  

You're right, I don't

2019-01-20 22:01:37 UTC  

anyways

2019-01-20 22:01:47 UTC  

What tenets and principles does atheism have?

2019-01-20 22:01:55 UTC  

Even you would say none

2019-01-20 22:02:00 UTC  

it's essential to your argument

2019-01-20 22:02:01 UTC  

muh peer review

2019-01-20 22:02:07 UTC  

You don’t believe in God do you?

2019-01-20 22:02:23 UTC  

No