Atheist Morality
A response to a legitement question asked by some christian:
I think what you are asking for is and Ethical standard without god? It’s really not very complicated. It is good to treat people with respect and diggnity because it facilitates social interaction, reduces animosity, creates social cohesion. These things lead to a more fluid and sustainable society, which is likely to produce happier citizens and more importantly is less likely to implode in upon itself. Given that both the quality and quantity of life for individual humans is greatly increased when men band together in social units and that those quantities increase in proportion to the size of the social unit, one could point out that it is better for men to live harmoniously amongst one another. More importantly, that failing to do so leads not to an ethereal and intangible hell in an after life, but quite litterally to a real hell here and now. So the answer, for an atheist , as to men should be good can be put very simply: men should be good to one another because it is in their own self interest to do so.