You know what I find interesting about this discussion? No one has even attempted to answer my question. Some of you have tried to dance around an answer, hide from it, deflect it, change the discussion, or parry and counter-thrust because you wrongly assume my questions are a defense of a religious based moral code and an attacking thrust against any non-divinely originated moral code as baseless and wrong. Interesting. Socrates would be smiling. So, I'll ask it again with no intent of being judgmental. If you do not accept the existence of a divine entity and thus the validity of a divinely ordained moral code, what is the source or origin or base or criteria or root for the moral code you do accept and strive to follow?
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