So there is the day that you realise that there is no God and no after life and the whole mythology, which is the basis for the society, has no credibility.
So does the society, in which you live, suddenly disintegrate? Not exactly. You have something called “civil law” which protects the rights of individuals from the predatory behaviour of the anti-social. Atheism is not the same thing as anarchy.
The only question then is what comprises the “rights of the individual”. Property rights and the like then come into play, but the arguments of the Marxists and the Proudhonistes have been dismissed as irrelevant, so where do we go from here?
Many of the concepts regarding property rights are essentially “what I have, I keep”, and “I share only when it suits me”. In other words stuff the poor, let them starve, why should I care? Essential conservative thinking, essential conservative lore.
The more I have, the more condescending I can become.
I can look down my nose and treat those who have less than me with the contempt they deserve, and why should I pay tax any way? Unless it is to stop somebody somewhere else in the world stealing all my goodies?
The poor can work anyway, can’t they (OK – I sent all my company’s blue-collar jobs as dirt cheap labour to China and all the white-collar jobs to India, but there are bound to be other companies that haven’t? There aren’t? Never mind not my problem!).
I mean everyone in this world can get rich, can’t they? If they can’t, they are lazy idle good-for-nothing loafers, and why should I help them ….
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