Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Just Don't Kill Anyone

Everything in this world is a sliding scale between two poles. The poles don't actually exist, they are always guideposts for describing people and the further along the scale a person is toward one pole or another is how radical or passionate they are about that particular issue. It's like a calculus convergence and divergence. Always approaching ever closer to zero or infinity without ever reaching it.

External and Internal Morality are two of these poles. They are often confused with religious and non-religious as well.

Personally, I have never understood people who let others tell them what to do; whether it be another human being, an idea of God, an idea of morality that did not come from within, a governmental body, a religion, etc.

I think the main difference between a religious person and a non-religious person is this idea of external morality. I think it is also why so many religious people say that non-religious people have no morality. That's not it, it just isn't like their own.

My whole life philosophy is to have the most fun while I'm here, regardless of anything outside killing someone or hurting someone unnecessarily. Some would say that's immoral, but there are many ways in which I do not find it acceptable to harm someone for my own happiness. Sounds like a moral compass to me, it is just my own. I don't have any delusions that my own morality is better than someone else's and that they should follow mine.

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