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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Greg or e who wrote (2288)10/23/2000 4:22:50 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
E got it just about right, as she usually does.

I agree that some people are evil, in the sense that they refuse to place the rules that the community develops for its own protection above their own impulses. What is the history of morality, after all, than an attempt to balance individual expedience with the needs of the group?

To expect them to abide by some inane and arbitrary guideline that a bunch of people just made up, is absolutely the most naive thing I've ever heard.

People obey the law because they are know that if they are caught they will be punished. It is only the law, that inane and arbitrary guideline of which you speak, and the mechanisms we have created to enforce it, that prevent the evil ones from doing whatever they choose. Fear of violating some absolute moral law, which might or might not be enforced after death, is not going to deter very many criminals.
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