What do you think of Dawkins' sentiments?

Richard Dawkins says: “In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”

Is this true? If it's all nothing, how is he able to say there is no good and evil? The ideas and debates we have must mean we have a conscience. Without a conscience, there would be no discussion and nothing to think about. Dawkins would not have the clarity to make this statement without a conscience.

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newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

how is he able to say there is no good and evil?

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
Shakespeare
(Hamlet: Act II, Scene 2)

emiliya · 22-25, F

@newjaninev2 You think Russia is bad, don't you? I can say “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” about Putin. He is not a bad man, and the war is not a bad war; it is only our interpretation that deems it so, and our interpretation is neither right nor wrong.

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@emiliya Correct. You seem surprised that there is no absolute right and no absolute wrong. We are left to make, and stand by, our individual judgements, and to be aware that there will always be those who differ.

emiliya · 22-25, F

@newjaninev2 What has caused you to judge Putin? How did this view of him form?

To determine that Putin is bad, you would need to have an idea of what “bad” is, wouldn't you? Why aren't you neutral about Russia? You live in a world without good and evil!

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@emiliya

You live in a world without good and evil!

Whatever has given you that impression?

I have already said "We are left to make, and stand by, our individual judgements, and to be aware that there will always be those who differ."

There is no absolute good and there is no absolute evil... they are simplistic fictions taught to children and as adults we progress beyond them... which is just one of many reasons the adult world can become complicated.

emiliya · 22-25, F

@newjaninev2 What is guiding those “individual judgements”?

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@emiliya self-interest