Ways to Say "Should"
There is good reason to believe that moral entities do not exist objectively, because it is a matter of empirical fact that people disagree about them in a way that they do not disagree about physical reality.
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Why would you trust the destiny of your eternal soul to a system of belief that someone else thought through?
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