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Question About Morality or a Rage bait
(thelemmy.club)
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The best logical fallacy to give an atheist when discussing morals is to ask them why it's morally wrong to have intercourse with roadkill
It's dead it will not feel anything, nobody will know and there are no victims
If you ask a Christian or Buddhist why it's morally wrong, they will tell you it's because the body retains inherent dignity as part of God's creation (or the sacred flow of life), and desecrating it violates divine/natural order, harms your soul/karma, and shows disrespect, even if no one feels it or knows
An atheistic worldview of this question taken to its extreme, concludes that intercourse with roadkill is tantamount to masturbation and nothing more
I agree with you in spirit, although "dead things can't consent" is insufficient in my opinion. Sex toys can't consent either, but there is nothing morally wrong with using them appropriately.
We evolved a sense of revulsion about corpses to help keep us safe. Christians have a harmful habit of backwards thinking, claiming an invisible wizard created the morals we developed naturally over time. My abusive parents will never face justice because too many people think they're entitled to believe things that are not true.
It is scary how many people genuinely seem to think atheists can't or don't have morals. Imo, it's immoral to lie. If everyone could stop pretending magic is real, if we could hold each other accountable using standards that are grounded in observable reality, we could solve a lot of problems.
Well obviously there's more to it than that, I don't need any excuse if there's no desire. That would be my argument to this guy, if he were doing this argument in person, right before I about-face and dip TF out because I don't want that thought existing in my head longer than that.