I read up a bit on Schrodinger's cat and determinism in the lab after school, and my teacher was talking about how old people are a burden on the economy and we should just support them ourselves or let them die.
Let's consider: Whether determinism is true or not is really irrelevant. We perceive ourselves as having free will. If we didn't have free will, and we've only been programmed to think we have free will, it would make no ultimate difference. The claims that we don't have free will by those evil humanists (God curse their existences!) they feature on The Truth Project are completely impertinent to whether lives have any meaning.
Let's consider: Economic conservatism claims social security doesn't work because population sizes are often unpredictable. What began as 500 some guys supporting one is now down to three guys supporting one. In the year 2017, the ratio will be 1:1. So here's what we do: let's have tons of unprotected sex. Abortion is for anarchists.
Let's consider: Some claim that without God, there would be no ultimate value in anything. I say even if there was a God, whatever he thought valuable could be completely invaluable to you. Value is judged by the individual. Adolf Hitler's morality is every bit as valuable to him as yours is to you. There is no such thing as an ultimate standard for morality, and even if God existed, there couldn't be an ultimate standard for morality because morality is in itself dependent on respecting whatever the individual considers valuable. Unless God was illogical, he could not create such a thing as objective value, could he? Now, I'll accept arguments that we can't live fulfilling lives in our sinful condition and apart from him, but claiming objective morality is silly.
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