Author Topic: ATHEISTS: What is "Responsibility"?  (Read 576 times)

I'm trying to learn about your world-view, I intend no insult.

this thread might turn ugly, just warning you
controversial topics like this can bring out the worst in people, if not handled correctly

being responsible for stuff
duhh


I dont get the question. What does that have to do with atheism?

If someone relies on you to do something and you were told you needed to do it (And you do) that is now a responsibility.

Also how is this diffrent for an atheist?

Wait so you can only be responsible if athiest wat

I dont get the question. What does that have to do with atheism?

It's a bit vague.

By responsibility, do you mean why I make my choices?

Because if you were to say, "What are your responsibilities?" to me, I could say anything, like feeding my cats.
But that would be a responsibility to anyone who had faith too.

If you asked me why I had a responsibility to say, not hurt someone else, that would be different.
A person of faith might say "Because hurting a person is against the Bible/Quran/My Belief, and in doing so I disrespect God".
I would say as an atheist, my reason for that responsibility is that it's not right for me to hurt another person for a number of reasons. If they were hurt and it upset them, it would make it hard for me to be friendly with them. I wouldn't want a person to be hurt and that to upset myself.
And I wouldn't want to hurt a member of my own species, because that doesn't help my species in the long-run.

It's all a bit technical or unusual, but the question is a difficult one to answer because it's vague.
If you clarify, I could probably answer a better personal explanation.

I just try to be a good person by not making other people upset. In general I really just leave people alone if they're happy.

I just try to be a good person by not making other people upset. In general I really just leave people alone if they're happy.
same here

Okay, in trying to clarify the question I realized that it was dumb, soz.