it is hardly as black and white as you think as Good and Evil don't exist in nature. there are even other animals like Cats which kill for pure pleasure. i don't see any of them getting smote
All animals and even young children are innocent. They run on pure instinct. None of them have full self-awareness which requires understanding the universality and finality of death.
then follow the bible. fully with everything it say's. oh, you don't like its standards? want everyone to follow your idea of Morality? hahaha well, that's how Tyrants are formed. and Law.
Of course standards are necessary, but I divide them up between
moral standards where the equal rights of all (life, liberty, property and self-defense) are violated, and behavior that doesn't (sex between consenting adults, going to church on Sunday, praying to Mecca, etc.) which I categorize as individually determined virtues. Half of the 10 Commandments don't deal with morality. The problem is religions mix them up and don't differentiate them. The O/T has five hundred some "laws". That's BS.
what you see as Good and Evil and how the world should be are your own opinions. many would disagree and you are no more right than they are.
I've delineate 4 moral rights based on one point, the near universal desire for good order, which only despots and anarchists would disagree. Without them, there can be no objective morality and without that, no basis for law/good order where you can justify anything including genocide.
for instance, how should one handle a rapist? simply kill them? many disagree. many disagree on a lot of things. each with some valid points.
Yes, but while rape is objectively immoral, how we punish it and other violations of equal rights is more subjective.
however, my Morality is no more Objective than that of ISIS.
You don't get to decide by majority what's immoral. If you do, anything can be "moral" a la ISIS, Nazis, slave states, etc.
even if we reason that Murder is harmful as a whole I can list plenty of individualistic times it can be just and reasoned.
Killing yes, murder not.
War itself can be beneficial greater than peace as technological advancements increase and speed up.
Countries are like individuals, they have a right to defend themselves,
see the irony is as a Deist you should be able to Logically deduce if the creator wanted us to have some Moral code we would all share the same one.
That's what I've done, but not based on what God wants (that's not apparent) but deduced based on what I described above. The moral code so deduced is, "Honoring the EQUAL rights of ALL to life, liberty, property and self-defense, to be free from violation through force or fraud." That's it. It's basically a clarified Golden Rule. All else is virtue.
that's false we don't share the same one. we never have. I can list you thousands of human civilizations each with a different idea of it.
How do you justify morality decided by committee or majority? By that reasoning, the right of anyone to their life could be violated by whim.
does it mean we should not have morals? no we need them for the stupid people. its more so a matter of understanding their fluidity so we can better adapt and edit them to fit our needs
We need morals as a basis for law and good order.