But what does morality mean to an aethist?
Pretty much the same thing it means to a non-atheist.
I will be intentionally provocative here and offer the thesis, for discussion, that a purely atheistic society can no morality or immorality.
If you assume that morality comes from religion, or, to stretch a point even farther, that it comes from God, your thesis is of course reasonable. If you believe, as I do, that our moral codes are based on human experience of what behaviour is socially expedient, there is no connection whatsoever between morality, religion, and God, and no reason why an atheistic society should not be as moral - or likely more moral, as they would have fewer devices for rationalization - as a religious one.
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