Re:Things I Learned in the Gulag
by simula67 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:27PM
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I did not single out empathy. The comment I was replying to made the impression that was the only tool we are allowed to use and that religious people were somehow unempathetic since they need religion to not be murderers
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Oh, ok. Now I understand your point. I understood the comment you were replying to differently.
To explain where I'm coming from: one typical argument made by some religious people (not all!) is that atheists will inevitably degenerate into criminality, since -- the argument goes -- if you don't have religion to tell you something is immoral, and there are no consequences in the afterlife, what's the point of behaving well to others?