Philosophy with Cap'n Coconuts

[HylianDev]

Something I missed that I'd like to articulate here real quick:

The reason that we all do things is because we're motivated to. We're emotional creatures. We have desires. We want to do things. It sucks to just sit there and do nothing. If you don't breathe, that's painful, and then you'll die. I want to eat good food, I want to play video games, etc. It's as simple as that; for you, as well as for me.

Also, thoughts on "why not kill yourself":

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It doesn't make sense for me to. I'd be dead. I mean, I wouldn't feel bad stuff anymore, but at this point in my life I'm willing to brave the bad stuff to get to the good. That's what it means to not be suicidal. The state of being suicidal is generally a mental illness thing, and definitely not a choice thing.

Christian apologists, however, often love bringing up "why don't you kill yourselves" or "you think you can just do whatever and get away with it". That doesn't apply to me; I'm not suicidal and I believe in the reality of prison, as well as the fact that most illegal things are immoral (to me) too. Christians claim to believe that they'll go to an eternal paradise when they die, yet here they are suffering on earth for 70 years or so. Why don't you kill yourself so you can go to heaven? One guess is, you don't really think that heaven is on the other side, probably because modern people tend to realize that their thoughts and emotions are in their brain and affected by the physical world with no known effects from anywhere else.

And plus, doesn't God forgive your sins? If I were to molest and kill a child I'd go to prison for the rest of my life. I could not escape earthly judgement unless I was somehow able to cover up that crime really well, which has proven difficult to do. However, escaping the judgement of God is as easy as "Jesus, I believe in you, forgive me". How many murderers, pedophiles, etc. have repented from prison and their sin was instantly gone, and they'll never have to face the eternal consequences?

Which gave me another thought: if you believe in objective morality, then which political system is the best? How should we best punish criminals? How should we best educate our children? How should we best do anything? It's convenient that the Ten Commandments are considered to somehow be objective morality (except when God tells you to break them), but there's so much very super important information missing from it that we basically don't know anything ABOUT God's morality except "murder is usually bad" and a few other "don't do this" things.