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The starting point of your subject is the question: "Why should people help others?"
Once you have answered this, we can move on with the discussion.
a darn good piece of evidence that stuff like the argument from evil or argument from silence weren't why you were an atheist.
I don't think my being an atheist has anything to do with the argument from evil or the argument from silence. (I can explain more if anyone's interested.) I am an atheist because, based on my current knowledge, the hypothesis that God does not exist seems far more likely to be true than the hypothesis that God exists. That's all there is to it.
you can test this with hallucinogens
I assume that hallucinogens cause hallucinations, that is, distort my perception of reality. Why should I want to do that?
... (read more)they induce
This entire singularity thing seems, to put it very politely, misguided. Have you read the book "On Intelligence"? I'd say that computers are nowhere near becoming intelligent. The ability to play chess is not intelligence.
The psychological resistance I felt to admitting God's existence, even after having seen Him descend to Earth, was immense. And, I realized, it was exactly the amount of resistance that every vocally religious person must experience towards God's non-existence.
I'm amazed. I totally can't understand this kind of thinking (which you believe to be human nature).
Me, I don't believe that God exists. In fact, I hold the belief in God for little less than a mental disease. That is because there is virtually no evidence to support the existence of God, and a lot of evidence that seems to suggest that God doesn't exist. I don't need to read any of Richard Dawkins's... (read more)
Maybe I got a little confused with the conditional words of the English language. What I meant was: logically, before one can answer the questions "Why don't people help each other more?", one should be able to answer the question "Why do people help each other?", that is, what is it that makes people help each other in the first place.
Once you have an answer to that, you can proceed to asking why don't people help each other more than they are doing it now.