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The best moral theories incorporate both logic and empathy. For example āwhat happens to society if everyone did thisā + ādonāt use peopleā = Kant. Itās pretty interesting that thereās probably a neurological basis for both aspects of morality. Mirror neurons may be what gives us the empathy portion of morality (or the capacity for it). Now Iām stuck in an information gathering hole about the neurological basis of logical thinking š https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/mirror-neurons-in-brain-nature-of-morality-iacoboni
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keccers
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In the upcoming Christian theocracy it will be broadly understood that this is reflective of our Creator who wired us for both Logos + Love š
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Under such circumstances, ironically, I would become far less moral. Augustine may have said faith can only be entered willingly, but the same isnāt true of church membership. If in a theocracy, I would immediately enter the ruling religion and operate within it in bad faith. There would be many such cases š
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Because Iād rather be an asshole than a second class citizen, or someone who gets set on fireā¦
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keccers
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Yes I know Christians are stupid, God isnāt real, everything is downstream of fee fees and we are just flesh bags worshiping a fake and gay Sky Daddy But I couldnāt resist nonetheless
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I donāt think Christians are stupid. Itās religion as an institution that needs to have an eye kept on it. But to your original point, itās valid to argue that neurology is just revealing the mechanism a deity used. But itās equally valid to argue that the mechanism works just as well without the creator (or institutions of worship). I want to make a joke about natural doesnāt equal good, and thus moral doesnāt mean good, and it all cancels out; but Iām not quite clever enough to put it together
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