In Reply to: I dont understand how evil is a problem for atheists. posted by Mike K on April 3, 2007 at 14:21:46:
For any sentient, empathic being anyone's suffering is unacceptable, since due to empathy we feel some degree of their suffering ourselves. Because that experience is unpleasant we identify the inflicting of unnecessary suffering as wrong.The slightly deeper explanation is that the infliction of large-scale unnecessary suffering threatens the survival of the species, and we are genetically programmed to respond negatively to survival threats.
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- A couple of explanations - GliderGuider 04/3/0716:26:06 04/3/07 (0)