Because the only one you can really screw is really your own self. On Apr 3, 5:30 am, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > In Dostoevsty’s novel, “Crime and Punishment”, Raskolnikov commits > murder with the justification, “If God doesn’t exist, then anything is > permissible.” Dostoevsky, who advocated a slavophile Christianity, > uses the novel to argue that rationalist atheism leads to nihilism and > chaos and that a belief in a redeeming God is the only solid basis for > human life. > > The theistic argument for an ultimate basis for morality is, of > course, easy; morality is divinely deemed, proscribed, part of the > template of existence. It gives answers to the question, “why be > moral?” on different levels; because God has ordained it, because it > is a God-created part of human nature, because God will punish you if > you aren’t and reward you if you are. > > Where can atheists find an answer to the question; why be moral? More > practically, perhaps, if we accept secular models for organising > society (and this is the basis of western societies), where do we find > arguments in favour of behaving morally? In the wake of the financial > collapse, many commentators have identified a lack of moral > sensibility on the part of those managing and playing the markets as > one of the underlying problems leading to the collapse. Is the basis > of law and regulation merely deterrent; the fear of the consequences > of being caught? > > Francis
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