Morality is typically provided via a combination of great incentives
and equally severe punishments. These are often some of the core tenets
of the religion and dictate people's actions every day.
Karma is the supernaturally enforced version of "what goes around
comes around." As an extension, some Eastern religions' versions of
reincarnation include a sort of judgment. Do good, and be reborn as a
human; do evil, and be reborn as a slug. At the end of the scale is the
divine judgment of the afterlife found in religions such as
Christianity, where the stark contrast between heaven and hell is all
the motivation required to be a moral citizen.
I would think that people can be moral without such positive/negative
reinforcement, and I gain hope from the fact that atheists are not
simply evil. Mechanisms like the philosophy of ethics and psychology of
social norms indicate that there are other avenues to give a society
morality.
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