what is the purpose of life?

[RCTjunkie]

Jay520 said:

RCTjunkie said:

1. But it all ties together in the sense that if a majority society believes something like human sacrifice is moral and doesn't frown upon it, then what would be the reason for not doing such things without a morality to stop you?

2. Responding to the answer, it would still be immoral for such a society to do immoral things even if it only lasted a short time. Why did Hitler's short reign matter? Does morality play into that?

1. If the majority of society believes human sacrifice is moral, then there would no "reason" to not do those things. I think you give to much credit to humans. Without laws & practical consequences, you would see how terrible human morality really is. Without laws & consequences, people would for the most part do what they want regardless of morality.

That's not the point I was making. My point was if a society practices "immoral" acts such as murder & rape, then eventually it would fix itself since those actions are bad for society. Either the society would die or it would change.

What's "good" and "bad" for society are not the same definition of morality. The arguement you present is in regard to what's best for the human race, which is different from morality (see: animals eating their young).  There's nothing being proven in regards to these acts being morally wrong. Without a definite morality, there is no absolute moral law that universally says that something is wrong, and thus no objective moral duties.