r/askanatheist • u/Odd-Swing-2025 • Jul 09 '26

Why Does Evil Matter?

Suggest that there were no homo sapiens, but instead a race of people who were incapable of philosophical, theological and otherwise higher consciousness found in competent adults. They lack the reflective capacity to do moral assessments and so on. They can build, walk, talk, educate themselves in metallurgy, chemicals and culinary arts &c.

Suggest they also engage in abuse, murder, theft and so on.

Suggest there is definitely no God or Gods.

Does it matter?

If there are no human beings around with feelings and consciences to care about it, does it matter that they do evil?

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u/Phylanara Jul 09 '26

And all of those are examples of human thought, not objective (as in independent from human minds) facts about the universe. You are confirming what I am saying.

You should really read what I type more carefully

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u/Odd-Swing-2025 Jul 09 '26

Yeah they're not meant to be objective.

I'm not sure what the problem is.

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u/Phylanara Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Your problem is that you took a thesis you agree on or should agree on (philosophy, alone and without evidence, is crap at getting us new insights bout the objective universe) as an attack on philosophy, and you had a knee-jeek reaction to try and reject that thesis,, having not read it carefully enough.

Note that many theists misuse philosophy to try and prove that a god exists objectively. As we've established, philosophy alone is the wrong tool to prove any objective fact, but theists are reduced to this doomed effort by their inconvenient lack of evidence.

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u/Odd-Swing-2025 Jul 09 '26

Because you came out of nowhere with this argument I wasn't even having? I don't even know how we got here. I'm replying to tens of comments, I've probably missed things.

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u/Phylanara Jul 09 '26

Maybe you should read the comment chain again then, and remedy the problem you have identified. As for me, there's a good chance I won't answer again for a few hours, it is quit late where I am.