Oldavid wrote:
So where do you get your sanctimonious "morality" from?
The "survival-of-the-fittest" paradigm contains no morality clause other than survival and dominance.
A bit of "spring cleaning" to rid the house of cockroaches and other vermin makes sense to a theist. Particularly since every cockroach will be rewarded according to their merits.
According to you lot morality is only an opinion of some convenience to whoever holds the biggest stick. Eugenics is the only conclusion to your "morality". The Islamists are simply practicing that according to their convenience and ambition.
It is also stupidly self-contradictory to blame the perversity of a designedly autonomous creature on the designer. You demand autonomy and you got it. Your choices will be appropriately rewarded.
You are not the first religious person to assume atheists use "survival of the fittest" as a basis for morality. It's a common misconception. But just because a religious person gets their morality from religious teachings it does not therefore mean that non-religious people look to evolution for morality.
You ask AspieOtaku where he gets his morality from and then assume it comes from "survival of the fittest" even though it obviously does not. His morality clearly has nothing to do with "survival of the fittest".
So where
does it come from? It may come from a similar desire as mine, to live in a world where people treat each other with dignity and trying to minimize the suffering of living beings is a goal.
This is a decision. It's not a rule from God (although the mellower brand of religious people often do call it such). You don't have to be ordered by a deity in order to come to a decision.
It has nothing to do with evolution. I have actually never come across a non-religious person using survival of the fittest as a morality paradigm. A large number of movies have villians who use it as a morality paradigm. But equating atheists with movie villains nis absurd.
Religious morality is just as much a human decision as non-religious morality. But it gets marketed as 'word of God'. Even so, it clearly changes over time. I find many things in the Bible to be morally horrifying (Lot offering up his duaghters as potential rape victims??? How is that moral???) If you scour the internet you wil probably find an atheist who uses survival of the fittest as a moral paradigm. But that aint me or Aspie Otaku or probably any non-religious person on this board. Isis seems to fit a veryu ancient moral paradigm that saw women as objects to use and children as mini-adults. I find that horribly immoral. My decision to see that as immoral has literally nothing to do with evolution.