Quote Originally Posted by ChrisL View Post
This is interesting, the way you put it. I never thought of it that way. Based on that argument then, could it also be argued that an athiest or nihilist would regard life as the quintessence of preciousness since that's all they have?

Sorry, your post just got me thinking out loud.

Chris L
sure you could argue that, and I would be getting way off topic to continue, but you can't really place any meaningful moral boundaries on anyone else's behavior.

I was just reading the last post Ice... I am trying to think of a way to imagine someone who doesn't think he or she has it right, and others have it wrong (religious or otherwise). Atheists think they are right, and often cite atrocities committed by "believers" as justifying evidence for their beliefs. The religious believe that they have found truth and others have not yet encountered it.

Even in our daily actions, don't we think that we are acting in the right way most of the time while others may be making mistakes? We know the right way to raise our kids and others don't etc.

Other than that, there may be a few (like aristotle) who believe that true knowledge is in knowing that you know nothing... and at that point, who is to say if it is right to kill in the name of a God that may or may not exist?