Re: Frightening Revelation

> > I don't need an all-powerful entity to scare me into being moral; I already
> > act on what's right... at least to the best of my abilities. In other words
> > I'm no angel, but I am a nice guy or so I'm told; that's just my basic
> > personality. I'm not moral because I fear other entities, I'm moral for the
> > sake of survival.
>      Your position, might I say, is one held by many. In it's way, it does
> account for a certain measure of the overall survival of mankind. Since this
> is a philosophy area, I merly meant to point out the Biblical viewpoint that
> our own inner morality is of itself lacking in the eyes of God.

It's an easy formula. The more aberrated you are, the more difficult (and
possibly useless) you find it to take other entities than yourself into
account when you make decisions. The less aberrated you are, the more able
you are to consider the total sequence of actions that will result from a
decision, and care that an entity or entities might be damaged.