Can you give me a “for instance”? An example of something we “see as 100% true” for which we “don’t have empirical evidence”?
You seem to imply that your motivation depends on your beliefs, and your beliefs on your understanding of reality, and that reality has moral facts in it. That is quite a stretch. Do you insulate yourself from a train of thought with a "slippery slope" argument here?
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Reality does contain moral fact. All morality is culturally constructed from the bottom up with one goal - to limit social violence. After thousands of years these cultural constructions are formalized into oral traditions and integrated into religions.
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But morality has nothing to do with God or religion. If a behavior increases social violence, it is immoral. If a behavior prevents or decreases social violence, it is moral. Since what causes violence differs from culture to culture, morality can be described as “relative” ..
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... in that respect. But morality itself serves the same purpose wherever it is found.
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Why is it immoral to sleep with your neighbors wife? Or bear false witness? Or steal? Or commit adultery? Or cover your neighbors house? Those behaviors lead to social violence. Look at all formalized morality and you find that commonality.
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