Why do people feel contented when they do some noble act?
Religious scriptures claim that it is the sub-concious belief that make the person feel happy about a good deed.
But I’m guessing non-religious people or those who don’t believe in any religion of God feel the same when do some good such as help out others because it’s in the nature. If it’s in the nature, how did it become part of human nature?
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For those who don't believe in any god how will know they whether they are doing something is noble act or evil act? What I meant who'll decide? :)
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For those who don't believe in any god how will know they whether they are doing something is noble act or evil act? What I meant who'll decide? :)
An atheist will disagree with your statement. According to them, you do not need divine guidance to know about morality. The "code of morality" is pre-built in our system. Althought, one can argue who created the code, but that's a different debate.
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Society sets the norms of ethics and morals for most of the part. It was probably ethical and noble once to burn a witch, and people must be taking pride in (hence feeling contended in) identifying a witch and burning her. Now it will be considered an ugly act, not a noble one.
Then there are just common sense stuff. Actions that only give you certain gratification but hurt someone else are considered immoral; theft, murder, rape and such. So if your actions can prevent such acts or punish the culprit, then one would feel good, even if one is religious or not.
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Some feels so proud while doing evil acts.
Religion 'Islam' decribed three types of 'Nafs' in this regard.
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are religious people less likely to commit crimes etc than atheists? i doubt it.
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Compare the ratio of both and see the difference :)
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^ could you share those numbers with us LKK.
Being Atheist does not make you a criminal, in fact most of the serial killers and terrorists and abortion clinic killers are pretty religiously fundamentalist people.
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^I will once i have/found :D
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are religious people less likely to commit crimes etc than atheists? i doubt it.
depends on your definition of religious.
It also depends upon the rule of law in case of Crime. The bigger the fear of getting caught, the less you will see any crime committed by anyone regardless of one's religion.
There are millions of examples around us where a person who appears and claims to be super religious but caught in committing wrong things.
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Society sets the norms of ethics and morals for most of the part. It was probably ethical and noble once to burn a witch, and people must be taking pride in (hence feeling contended in) identifying a witch and burning her. Now it will be considered an ugly act, not a noble one.
Then there are just common sense stuff. Actions that only give you certain gratification but hurt someone else are considered immoral; theft, murder, rape and such. So if your actions can prevent such acts or punish the culprit, then one would feel good, even if one is religious or not.
Makes sense but regarding society setting norms of ethics, what governs a society to come to an ethical conclusion? Is it evolution or is it some text?
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Makes sense but regarding society setting norms of ethics, what governs a society to come to an ethical conclusion? Is it evolution or is it some text?
It could have a religious seed, or some philosophical thought process for that matter. It could also be a tradition started by some twisted justice system or a tradition pushed upon people by some elites. I am not sure actually, just thinking loud.
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"Religious people" unfortunately are fewer than those people who claim to follow a particular religion.
Doing good to feel good. Everyone does it.
Religious and 'non-religious'
What makes difference between these two is very huge.
If a person is doing the right thing just to make himself feel good or something that is norm of society, then the person can change that attitude very easily time and time again, but if a religious person does good deeds thinking of it as **his/her duty as ordained by religion, **then there are more chances that the person will continue to follow the good for longer time.
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Did not understand how a person who does good based on his/her belief system can "easily change that attitude time and time again".
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Did not understand how a person who does good based on his/her belief system can "easily change that attitude time and time again".
Southie, I believe that you are mixing two things what diwana said. He did not say what you have questioned about. I suggest you to read it again :)