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Wind203 asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 8 years ago

Atheists do you believe in personal responsibility?

If yes please explain why.

Thank you.

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  • 8 years ago
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    I choose to take personal responsibility because it leads to a better quality of life.

  • Iain
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Personal responsibility is not dependent on your belief system - an atheist is just as likely to have a positive attitude to personal responsibility as any believer....

  • 8 years ago

    WE do not go to a priest and get absolution--over and over again--so yes, I'd say we do believe in personal responsibility.

  • AIM-7
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Well I'm not an atheist, but regardless of your religious despositions, every person has personal responsibility.

    If you are talking about morals - personal morals, I don't mean to say it in a bad way, but religion has nothing to do with morality. Religion can compliment morality to a degree, but it is not the foundation.

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  • 8 years ago

    Personal responsibility??? How can responsibility NOT be personal?

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    No, I don't 'believe' in it. I *know* that I am personally responsible for myself because I am sane and rational. Unless I do something in sleep or other altered consciousness states, I am fully responsible for everything that I do and that is a fact, not a matter of mere belief.

  • Raatz
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Define what exactly you're talking about plz. If you mean free will, no. If you mean legal culpability, yes.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Yes, because why should I leave it up to other people to look after me? I am not saying help me, but why should other people bother to do things for me if I cannot be asked to do it myself.

    I'm not sure, but I think I have missed the question completely...

  • 8 years ago

    What's not to believe?

  • No I don't. Thank you

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