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Re: Worthlessness
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:51:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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Not at all the same. I still don’t have a satisfactory answer from atheists
to the question “why do good?” (from a personal standpoint rather than some
overall societal efficiency explanation)
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Here’s an answer for you: I “do good,” as you put it, because I have spent time
thinking about life, the universe, and my role in it and have decided based on
my own observations that mean people suck. I don’t believe in any god, but I do
believe in personal responsibility. I do not want to be the kind of person I
dislike, and it is my choice as to what kind of person I can be.
I wonder what is meant by “good” here in the first place. What are we talking
about? Giving to charity? Volunteering at your local homeless shelter or
library? Probably we all have different ideas of what is meant by “doing
good.”
Pamela
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Why be 'good' without god (was Re: Worthlessness)
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| (...) Damn straight. I like this. It more or less reflects me too. Based on my own meagre experience of life, I have found that there are some people I like and others I do not, some actions I like and others I do not, and some things I like to be (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Worthlessness
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| (...) You should, or else Dave! is correct. (...) You should, or else Dave! is correct. (...) Not at all the same. I still don't have a satisfactory answer from atheists to the question "why do good?" (from a personal standpoint rather than some (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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