I Can Be Moral Without Religious Pedagogy
Nothing annoys me more than when hyper-religious people claim that those without religion are immoral by default.
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Where do morals come from?
Here are some readings that helped me understand:
http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2013/02/a-case-for-secular-morality-objective.html
http://www.humanreligions.info/secular_morals.html
https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-myth-of-secular-moral-chaos
A person with the username [b]capoman1[/b] on YouTube made this enlightening comment:
[quote]The case for "morality" is pretty simple.
Consider the analogy of driving; there are certain rules that you follow when you drive; why? Even without traffic laws, why do people on the road (almost all drivers) avoid traffic accidents? Why don't people just cross the center line into oncoming traffic?
Because the action of driving has an IMPLIED goal of COMPLETING YOUR DRIVE IN TACT; and everyone else on the road has that same implied goal. Even those people THAT WANT to turn the road into a demolition derby UNDERSTAND that the road is filled with drivers that don't want that, and so recognize that DEMOLITION DERBY ON THE ROAD IS WRONG because it goes against the goals of 90+% of the people on the road, and you will be making the road a place that goes against the almost majority goal.
You can do this same sort of analogy for any behavior that involves people interacting; including LIFE ITSELF.
Like driving, living has the implied goal to "continue living," and hopefully "continue living on a road where we don't have to worry about head on accidents."
So in life, IF YOU ARE DOING ANYTHING that makes "the road" a place that people fear, then you are "doing wrong."[/quote]
http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2013/02/a-case-for-secular-morality-objective.html
http://www.humanreligions.info/secular_morals.html
https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-myth-of-secular-moral-chaos
A person with the username [b]capoman1[/b] on YouTube made this enlightening comment:
[quote]The case for "morality" is pretty simple.
Consider the analogy of driving; there are certain rules that you follow when you drive; why? Even without traffic laws, why do people on the road (almost all drivers) avoid traffic accidents? Why don't people just cross the center line into oncoming traffic?
Because the action of driving has an IMPLIED goal of COMPLETING YOUR DRIVE IN TACT; and everyone else on the road has that same implied goal. Even those people THAT WANT to turn the road into a demolition derby UNDERSTAND that the road is filled with drivers that don't want that, and so recognize that DEMOLITION DERBY ON THE ROAD IS WRONG because it goes against the goals of 90+% of the people on the road, and you will be making the road a place that goes against the almost majority goal.
You can do this same sort of analogy for any behavior that involves people interacting; including LIFE ITSELF.
Like driving, living has the implied goal to "continue living," and hopefully "continue living on a road where we don't have to worry about head on accidents."
So in life, IF YOU ARE DOING ANYTHING that makes "the road" a place that people fear, then you are "doing wrong."[/quote]