| Mr Khan said: If we are all (or in the majority) in the belief that existence is good and preferable to non-existence, we can then enforce that norm, thus stopping the homicidal as part of a mutual pact to protect the lives that we generally agree that we love Human life can be held sacred from a purely humanist and indeed nontheistic perspective, and imbued with meaning in our quest to make our own life and the lives of others better. |
In a mechanical world, all our believes amount to nothing. They are just random collisions of atoms in a lump of fat. Also, the distinction between exsistence and non exsistence becomes meaningless since the matter exsists regardless of what happens to a human body. Remember, your soul or feelings doesn't really exsist in this world view, they are merely results of particles in motion. These particles will still move after death and destruction of the body.
point 2, I readily agree and also pointed that out in the post you are quoting. However, for us to hold up life as 'better' than non-life there has to be some sort of fixed point of morality or ethics if you will. My point is that this fixed point can not be found if exsistence is reduced to nothing but a deterministic mechanical view.
