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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being nice makes me feel good.

Being mean makes me feel bad.

I know the difference between good and evil like I know the difference between chocolate and vanilla.  I don't need the threat of hell to make me be good.  Hell is being bad and then hating yourself for it.

"Harm none, and do what you will".[/quote]

Do you agree that for there to be good and evil, there has to be a creator of it? Otherwise, the terms wouldn't exist and folks could do whatever they want. [/quote]

No I don't.  I think that it's about pain.  We know to move away from a flame because it hurts.  This is a survival mechanism.

We are intelligent enough to know that if the flame hurts us, it hurts others.  Intelligence is also a survival mechanism, and encouraged by natural selection.

Empathy allows us to cooperate in social groups.  We don't want to see others hurt by the flame.  This is also encouraged by evolution.

Now, whether there's some higher power that planned for us to understand pain, and be intelligent, and have empathy, is a question I will not know the answer to in this life at any rate.  Whether there is a life beyond or a deeper mystery here.... I'd like to hope that there is.  I will be pleasantly surprised if there is.  But I don't have any reason to believe it at this point.

What I do believe at this moment is that human intelligence and empathy allow us to understand and wish to minimize pain for others.  That is the source of morality.[/quote]

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