If you truly believe humans are just biological machines and nothing more, then how can you have any morals? If we are just machines, how is kiling a human any different than breaking a computer?
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Josh Friedman on January 24, 2008, 4:28 PM
Your terms are a little mixed up. Nihilists do not believe in anything, including morality, so no, they have no morals
BUT, not everyone who believes that humans are “biological machines” is a nihilist. In fact most are not. Most do believe or accept some basic responsibility that all humans have to treat each other fairly, no matter where people came from, no matter what they are. If this is another attempt to show that atheist have no morals, then I can’t make it clearer when I say the most atheists are not nihilists.
A Co on January 24, 2008, 4:47 PM
Maybe everyone who believes humans are machines isn’t a nihilist, but every nihilist believes humans are machines (or at least every nihilist I’ve talked.) The point still remains the same. If you believe humans are machines how can you justify morality.
Also, I never meant to imply that atheists have no morals or are nihilists. I myself am an atheist and as you can see I am not a fan of nihilism.
Kath Sayles on February 3, 2008, 4:48 PM
Anyone who believes humans are machines would also believe the machine was the product of some invention/building etc. The inventor/builder would logically be the source of morality.
I’d also say that’s a pretty nonsensical premise. Why would a builder make so many multiples of the same machine and make other(what some of us call) species, so similar to others. Would the builder be trying to make the best machine, and if so, why not dump all the failures?
As I understand it, a nihilist does not believe in machines or anything else, for that matter
A Co on February 4, 2008, 6:56 PM
By biological machines, I mean that humans are no more signifigant than machines. Its the idea the the brain is just a complex computer.
A Co on February 4, 2008, 6:57 PM
Oh yeah and Nihilist believe in machines, they believe in lots of things, they just don’t believe anything is meaningful
Nosmo King on January 19, 2009, 3:27 PM
Love is nothing more than a biochemical reaction to make sure our genes get passed on.
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