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if you're an atheist or non-theist, are you moral? Why?
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Perhaps not moral in the religious sense, but I do have personal standards of conduct. The one time I violated one of my own major standards, 23 years ago, it filled me with remorse and disappointment that has lasted to this day.
My standards are based on kindness, respect, peace, love, empathy and a desire for harmony between living things. Those attitudes make it easier to exist in society and make my own life acceptable to me. They are human attributes, they don't require a supreme being's commands to practice them.