{"id":1158,"date":"2012-08-29T12:06:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T02:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2012-08-29T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T02:06:33","slug":"morality-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Morality Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question from Sam:<\/strong>
\nWhere do humans get their moral standards and conscience from?
\n
\nAnswer by SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong>
\nThe short answer is, from each other, from their own instincts and from a long line of social ancestors.
\n
\nMy earlier piece on right and wrong<\/a> answers your question in much greater detail. There’s also a short piece on the foundations of morality<\/a>.
\n
\nThe question, and where you’re asking it, implies that God’s instructions via some sacred text would be the usual answer. Well, every sacred text has a lot of instructions even most religious people don’t use anymore, like killing people for eating shellfish or working on the wrong day. Those who use these texts as a moral guide are choosing which parts<\/em> to use – but that means they’re judging the text based on some independent moral standard. Therefore, even believers are getting at least some of their ethics from the simple experience of being a human among humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question from Sam: Where do humans get their moral standards and conscience from? Answer by SmartLX: The short answer is, from each other, from their own instincts and from a long line of social ancestors. My earlier piece on right and wrong answers your question in much greater detail. There’s also a short piece on … Continue reading “Morality Recap”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[176,126,91],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-conscience","tag-ethics","tag-morality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-iG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}