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What can you base any moral value upon as an atheist that is absolute and should apply to everyone, or even just all other atheists?
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This is a well explored field in philosophy, but I never specialised in it.
Nevertheless, there is a frequently recurring (but bad) argument that we need religion to give us moral guidance, therefore god must exist. Not only is the inference invalid (needing something to be true is no reason for believing it to be true), the premise is false. The falsity of the premise is related to the question Ruminator has raised.
Is there some source of moral values which does not involve a god? Several sources have been suggested, the one I find most plausible is based on human nature.
There are some facts about humans that are true regardless of whether anyone believes them. I'll give some examples and show how they can lead to moral guides.
Fact: once a human dies, their death is permanent and irreversible. Moral consequence: killing humans is a serious matter and should not be done lightly.
Notice that almost all moral codes ban killing humans, although many then add in some exceptions: war, self defense, judicial execution, etc. but in most cases, killing a properly behaving member of one's group is forbidden. (Human sacrifice is about the only exception I can think of).
Fact: human children have a long period of dependency on adults. Likewise very old people need care from capable adults, but are worth keeping as a store of cultural lore. Moral consequence: family bonds are important and parents and children have various duties of care to each other. Likewise, to the degree that families are kept together by the sexual pair-bond of the parents, that pair relationship has a special value and is not to be betrayed.
Well that was two quick, rough and ready examples and I dare say people could pick them to bits with a bit of effort. They were just some examples I made up on the spot to illustrate the concept of humanistic naturalism.
Is this the sort of thing you're thinking of, Ruminator?