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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wtf? We know where morality comes from. It's about acting with others as you want them to act with you. Because as social animals, if we didn't have morals, our kind would just die. I like Kant's way to define something as moral or not: Ask yourself "What if everyone did this?" and if the result is bad, you will easily understand why it's in everyone's interest to collectively prevent it instead of trying to individually cheat

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 45 minutes ago

Wtf? We know where morality comes from.

Uh yeah, that was an analogy specifically referring to another situation where someone has a completely wrong idea about a topic (morality) and feels smug and self-assured when their 'target' doesn't fit within their framework. I wasn't agreeing with my hypothetical fundamentalist--you'd think me calling them a "fundamentalist" would make that kind of obvious, lol.

Another simple example would be people thinking global warming isn't a thing because it's cold somewhere.