>that's not some flavor of "my religion told me to"
You're not arguing in good faith, because that is a perfectly valid reason.
If you live in the US or any other developed country, that is even protected by the constitution.
You're not arguing in good faith, because that is a perfectly valid reason.
If you live in the US or any other developed country, that is even protected by the constitution.
I'm not arguing in bad faith :(... in fact you are arguing in bad faith more than. You're assuming something I don't mean to imply!
I prefaced my question because "my religion told me to" is boring, and I assume that I wouldn't be able to learn anything from that reasoning. If however, the reason isn't based in religion, I've never considered it, and would be very interested to learn something I've never heard before
I don't agree it's a perfectly valid reason. I believe religion as a whole, is a net negative for humanity.
But I do agree that anyone is allowed to take their morality from anywhere they'd like. I don't intend, and would reject the idea of anyone who tries to control what other people want to believe (some restrictions apply). So anyone is free to believe that ethics and morality can only come from religion, I personally think that's dumb, but they likely think my reason are dumb, so we're even.
I'm just not interested in the religious reasoning... but almost exclusively because I find it boring, and not useful to me.
You should know this by age 8, come on.
...but also, I'm not constraining the discussion, you're free to ask any question. I'm constraining *my* question to the parts that I might be interested in so I don't waste anyones time. There are answers that I might or might not agree with, but the ones based in religion are based on logic I don't find persuasive.
Then your parents have the final say.