Ryan McAvoy said:
timdiggerm said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
timdiggerm said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
Short easy answer = Because I feel empathy.
I don't need a God to tell me that something is wrong because I can work it out for myself using my brain. e.g. I would miss my family if somebody murdered them so I know somebody else would be sad if I commited murder.
That of course extends and answers every other moral question.
It doesn't though. Lots of people have felt empathy for some and still done terrible things to others.
Those people were wrong.
Says who? You? Why do you say that, and how could you justify the statement to them?
To go back a step, when you said "terrible things" what did you mean? I'm guessing you mean something that you consider morally wrong because your feelings of human empathy tell you they are "terrible things".
Okay, I should be more clear. I meant something I consider morally wrong because it's not loving towards people, because that's the ultimate (albeit fraught with difficulties of interpretation, I admit) standard handed down from on high. Not all theists will agree on standards, of course, as I'm particularly a Protestant Christian and not the mythical generic theist.
Humans can be wrong, stupid, sociopaths, ill informed, evil, manipulated, drunk, high etc etc allowing them to ignore, deaden, forget or bypass their feelings of empathy (For sociopaths they never had them of course).
What makes a person evil?