Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Bite-sized Philosophy"
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@Ethan Masters : That's kind of the point of what Peterson's making. We're NOT born with a moral compass. Out of the womb, we're pretty much selfish. But we are immersed in societal values, and we don't even question where we got that understanding of right and wrong.
At some point, on some level, an atheist must make a leap of faith that Life is Good. From that one axiom, you could probably derive the 10 Commandments, but what the atheist never seems to question is that one axiom. And where did they get it from? If life simply IS, then what moral imperative exists independently that you or I should RESPECT life.
Nature weighs in when it turns out that RESPECT for life (and, by implication, property) results in societies that prosper and advance themselves more rapidly than those based on "Who's bigger?" And there is no rational reason for being one or the other (theistic or atheistic), other than recognizing, after the fact, that societies that take that "God Is Good" leap far surpass those that do not. Without something greater than our mundane eat, breathe, sleep and shit existence, why not just take what you can, by force? If you say "punishment under law," then you're begging the question "Whence came that law?"
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