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Originally posted by quiet
q: so you're saying my life is meaningless?
a: absolutely!
q: but what's the point of it all then?
a: that's exactly it! there is none! welcome to your freedom!
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As Sartre would call it, "dreadful freedom." Since there is no God to fall back on, YOU are responsible for deciding what is right and what is wrong and acting accordingly.
Just because there is no God, it doesn't follow that there are no absolutes. Ethics make no sense without absolutes (e.g., relativisic ethical nonsense).
Somehow, right and wrong seem to have SOME kind of basis that we as humans are in touch with. Is it just religion that teaches us it would be wrong to do something like putting your cigarette out in a baby's eye? Is there no difference between that and pulling a drowning person out of a river? I would say most of think there must be!