…. there was no such thing as good and bad?
Spinning a coin can have one of two results – either it lands “heads” or “tails”. We believe the outcome is controlled
by pure chance. Some today believe that the whole of our universe also came about purely by chance. A random
combination of atoms led ultimately to everything existing today.
Taking this to its logical conclusion, there cannot be anything that we can call “right” or “wrong” in the same way that
we can’t say that because a tossed coin comes up “heads”, that’s a “wrong result”
As human beings we behave as if right and wrong really exist, but that’s a contradiction if in fact we are all the
product of a random coming together of atoms over long periods of time.
In a world governed by chance, murder or theft would not have any moral value, because such a world is governed
simply by random events. Saving a life would be no different from killing someone if morals did not exist.
Most of us would find it was impossible to live in such a world. We’re just not made that way.
