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[quote=Anonymous]OP here, good morning!  I hear crickets chirping...what is going on?  Perhaps I am only listening to myself talk at this point, but I will make a couple more observations anyway:

The problem with materialism is materialism.  If it is true, then human beings are nothing special in actuality.  The same process that spit us out will swallow us back up, and we, as individuals, will not know the difference.

I could invite one of the PPs out to lunch, and while chatting, PP could say something that annoyed me, and I could pull out my gun and shoot them in the face.  They would not know any better.  They would have ceased to exist, utterly and absolutely.  Our life would be like a video game (that no one created).  The characters might walk and talk and act like they matter, but they are actually nothing, come from nothing.

In a materialist universe, with no reality beyond matter and its properties, there is no non-material stuff.  There is no "ought," no "should."  When "ought" and "should" happen, they have no force and no weight, because they are unreal.  They are ultimately arbitrary.

If anything, all the evidence around us, about the "way things work," would point to the opposite of justice.  The apparent laws of the material world are cold, callous, brutal--pitiless matter.   How could justice arise naturally from a heaving sea of ever-changing material substances that simply are what they are?

Any code of justice we could come up with would be cosmically unenforceable and random, and therefore meaningless, illusory.  The "original position," the "veil of ignorance," the most happiness for the most people, do no harm, majority opinion, expert opinion--ALL are just personal preferences, not some ultimate reality.  They would be like traffic laws.  We might have excellent reasons for driving on the right, to prevent chaos on the streets, but the choice to organize like that is just a preference.  It could very well be the opposite somewhere else.

to be continued...[/quote]

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