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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
"It just is". That's the possibility that seems most likely to me whenever the question of the universe is asked. Are people with this philosopy less moral than those who put their faith in God? I don't think believers are more moral, they simply attribute that morality to a higher source. It occurs to me that people who truly believe that death is indeed the end have more cause to make the most out of life. The ones who are the least moral are the ones who don't care about it at all. Other people aren't real to them, so why should they?
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Reminds me of a discussion I had with a Canadian man. In a nutshell: who is truly the "moral" person - the man who does good because he fears God's wrath, or the man who does good because he desires God's love, or the atheist who does good simply because it is good?
(he was saying that without fear of God one has no reason to behave morally... which I found rather disturbing)
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
My biggest regret is that I didn't discover these concepts forty years ago. I might have achieved much more if I had actually considered these things. Or not; it's impossible to know and useless to worry about, but always entertaining to consider.
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I would say that depends on how you measure achievement, but that's just me.
