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Ah, the joys of religion.
Chimps and hornets fight for territory and resources - rational causes and further examples of why you can't have a universal moral code.
Humans invent abstract reasons for killing other humans who pose no actual threat, which places them lower on the evolutionary ladder than any other species. The most successful parasites don't kill their hosts, thus placing gonorrhea above homo sapiens in terms of morality.
Do you think that every religion is bad? Why so?
Is there any species expected to survive the complete destruction of earth in near future?
Why can't we expand the membership of our group to include all conscious entities universally?
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 11/12/2021 12:46:45Do you think that every religion is bad? Why so?Yes. Any business that relies on the gullibility of its victims, sells a nonexistent product, and divides people against each other, is evil. The one thing all religions have in common is that they all teach their victims to despise those infected by other religions. Any attempt to subvert inquiry with belief is evil.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 11/12/2021 13:03:18Is there any species expected to survive the complete destruction of earth in near future?Obviously not - complete destruction means exactly that. It has been suggested that cockroaches will flourish after the next world war as their genome is exceptionally insensitive to ionising radiation.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 11/12/2021 12:55:10Why can't we expand the membership of our group to include all conscious entities universally?Because some of them regard us as prey, and nearly all of them are at least in competition with us.
Do you see any positive effect of religion? Why did they survive?
A universal moral standard can't exclude every extant conscious entity.
Because people are sufficiently gullible to think that belief in the supernatural matters.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 12/12/2021 09:04:01A universal moral standard can't exclude every extant conscious entity.So there are no carnivores or parasites in your moral utopia. Therefore it can't be universal.
And if you join a tribe, however it is defined, you acquire some protection against members of other tribes.
I'm delighted to live under UK law and proud to associate myself with fellow Jews, but I can't subscribe to any religious belief. So I recognise that pork and shellfish can carry human pathogens (science) but I don't think it is a sin against the laws of the Almighty to farm, sell or eat them (religion).
Do Human Rights Actually Exist?'Human rights' are often spoken of as though they are materially existing, ontological principles that can never be violated by right of nature. A great deal of atheistic moral philosophy is predicated on experiences of pleasure and pain, which seem in some instances to come into conflict with a rights-based ethical worldview.What if pleasure is maximised by violating a right? Can we objectively ground human rights without invoking God or religion? If we cannot, can we still talk about human rights as though they do exist?
If a standard includes less than all conscious entities, it isn't universal.