Atheist ethics

Ian | 2 July, 2007 | 16:44

There’s a very misguided view that atheists don’t have ethics since they don’t have a god to answer to. The better question is though, is it really true ethics if you’re just doing it out of fear?

I don’t do good deeds to appease a racist, genocidal, masochist god.

(from a Facebook discussion board)

I think that I have fairly decent ethics, maybe not the highest, but I know my right from wrong and am good with where I stand.

So again, please don’t consider me immoral just because I don’t believe what you believe. It’s a really weak argument.

Categories
Atheism
Comments rss
Comments rss
Trackback
Trackback

« »

5 Responses to “Atheist ethics”

  1. Atheist Ethics Revisited « Terahertz - From Physics to Life says:
    19 July, 2007 at 18:37

    [...] Ethics Revisited July 19th, 2007 I probably didn’t do this post full justice on my first attempt, so I’m going to rewrite it more thoroughly [...]

    Reply
  2. Evolution of altruism « Terahertz - From Physics to Life says:
    18 August, 2007 at 14:53

    [...] Origin of Species Evolution of altruism August 18th, 2007 I’ve written a couple times already on how atheists can be altruistic without belief in a god or anything higher.  I [...]

    Reply
  3. On light and morality at Terahertz says:
    17 August, 2008 at 21:54

    [...] Atheist ethics [...]

    Reply
  4. 101st post review at Terahertz says:
    17 August, 2008 at 21:58

    [...] written and linked to overviews of atheism; my personal reasons for disbelief; several times on ethics and atheism; creationism keeps coming up, but that means there are many, many spoofs of it; it then [...]

    Reply
  5. On light and morality | Edger says:
    17 August, 2008 at 22:01

    [...] Atheist ethics [...]

    Reply

Leave a Reply