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Originally Posted by Graham
Why?
Again, why?
Graham
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Well its like the old question... If you had the chance to kill Hitler before he instituted the Holocaust, would you take it?
Well theres a moral conundrum. So if you take it you'll end up saving all those people and that evil possibly won't happen. However the act of taking another persons life is clearly wrong. The atheist will find it easier (and this is an extreme example, but serves the point) to modify that part about killing to not count in this case. From there on its a slippery slope. I mean why not do it again if the perceived advantages out weigh the costs. But the believer in God realizes that there is something else beyond his point of view to consider. And God himself has no point of view. It is up to God to determine whether to take Hitlers life or not.
So to simplify, the atheist believes that his or her point of view is adequate to determine what is the greater good and takes moral action accordingly. The believer in God does not. To add to this description we could say that the theoretical Satanist narrows their point of view to the slimmest point, that is... there own self. They take moral action in situations that arise, accordingly. Obviously thats an extreme state to be in and relatively few go there. It could be akin to say... malignant narcisissim