Just wondering..
Theoretically, if you can get away with any crime you can commit (murder , stealing etc..)
What is going to stop you from doing those stuff ?
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Just curious: if you believe you can repent on your deathbed and be forgiven of your crimes, what is going to prevent you from committing those crimes besides man-made laws?
But, if you believe that you can do those things without consequences after death, because there is no after-life, what is to prevent you from committing these crimes?
The fact that they harm other people, and most of us are programmed both socially and instinctively to avoid harming others when possible. That doesn't mean we never will, as we can plainly see with crime in a system with consequences firmly in place, it just means we will generally prefer other methods when available.
Me, don't and never did have the desire.
RealQuestions....
Please tell me this isn't going to be another "how can you be good without god" thread......AGAIN.
Same song, different verse LOL!
The fact that theists cannot even think clearly before posting already answered questions all over the web/forums, is evidence of their disability.
Victims of brainwashing.
A. There is no place I am aware of were such actions are not prohibited by law and carry stiff penalties.
B. I don't do those things because I don't WANT to do them, so even if I could get away with them, I still wouldn't do them.
C. The only people on Earth that believe that our actions during life don't matter are theists, to them this is nothing more than a practice run with a loophole to wipe the slate clean, the rest of us know better.
But, in 4 billion years from now, will your actions in your life matter? The universe will have receded into nothing, you and I will be forgotten, and there will be nothing.
"But, in 4 billion years from now, will your actions in your life matter?"
It doesn't matter, they need only matter now. I can't affect 4 billion years from now any more than I could affect 4 thousand years ago, that does not make what I do meaningless in the present, because I live and make those decisions in the present. The idea that actions need to be permanent or have rewards/consequences beyond the present is flawed, because that isn't what makes either morality nor value in the present.
"The universe will have receded into nothing, you and I will be forgotten, and there will be nothing."
And?
Why do they even need to matter now?
Because we live in the present, and everything that will ever matter or effect us personally will happen while we are alive, the present is what matters not 4 thousand years in the past or future.
Maybe the Christian doctrine is one of the reasons why some Christians are not afraid to do some crimes believing that their god is so merciful... Well, glad that man made laws.