Basic interactions of course revolve around that which all of us share in common:
1] the capacity to subsist from day to day, i.e. having access to food, water, shelter
2] the capacity to defend ourselves from those who might wish to do us harm
And then as a species we must embody the capacity to reproduce ourselves.
And yet even here there are conflicting moral and political narratives regarding the best way in which to attain [and then to sustain] this.
Right?
And this would seem to be true for both atheists and theists.
Now, if I’m asked how to go about this, I become entangled in my dilemma. And I certainly don’t argue that there is in fact an optimal social, political and economic agenda that those who are in sync with an objective understanding of human morality are able to embody. In other words, by way of one or another deontological contraption.
Yet somehow “in your head” you argue that this objectivity is “out there” somewhere. You can’t pin it down pertaining to any actual conflicting goods, but it’s enough to believe that it does in fact exist. Even though you don’t know what it is, it’s beyond your control and it’s not for you to decide.
Yet somehow or another it will all come together on one or another rendition of Judgment Day and you will either make the cut or you won’t. Again, that’s not for you to decide and it is beyond your control. You just don’t know.
So, when I bring you down to earth and try to intertwine these “general descriptions” of human interaction as they pertain to actual conflicted human behaviors you offer us…
…this:
I think that I can know and I can decide about human interactions in some reasonable sense. And at least some characteristics of God can be determined from the nature of life on Earth.
Is it even possible to be more abstract and ambiguous and vague?!
And the bottom line of course is that every idealist [and objectivist] that has ever come down the historical pike – ecclesiastic or secular – says exactly the very same thing!!
After all, short of actually demonstrating that all rational and virtuous men and women are obligated to think and to feel and to behave as “one of us”, what else is there?