Re: virus: Morality

Lather. Rinse. Repeat. (jwt@dana.ucc.nau.edu)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 01:40:33 -0700 (MST)


On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, John Steele wrote:

> Where doesn morality come from? Can atheists be moral?

I can't speak for the CoV's stand on this one, but here's how I define
things:

I am an "amoralist" because I do not believe in the existence of a purely
objective standard of right and wrong. However, I do live more-or-less
according to a set of _subjectively determined_ guidelines which I call
"a code of ethics".

As for atheism, I have a difficult time seeing how an atheist could
believe in an objective standard of morality.

--Jay

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