Not that I believe the categories of fair, right or justice are anything more than human constructs, but isn't it good to know they have only very limited and temporary influence on us!
Seriously, don't you want to rest easy knowing that if you beat the system here, you have truly and finally gotten away with it? It would really stink to think you/others would one day have to give an account for all the "evil" you have done. The truth is, if you murder someone and get off on a technicality you are totally free, of course there is no guilty feelings as nothing is really bad in any absolute sense, but also we have none of the perfect justice of God, final judgement stuff the Christians get from their Bible.
Isn't it much less complicated and even fun to live in a world where if you can pay off the police, strong arm a judge or threaten a jury and be let off and then you really are "innocent", since the human legal system is all there is!
If you really did do something the legal system or those moralistic Christians call evil, it is nice to know that saying your sorry or making amends is useless and unnecessary. I mean really, if there is no moral absolutes or final judgement beyond this life, it would be hypocritical to try to make up for something that is only between you and the legal system.
Atheism is hard to live out sometimes, but can't you see the wonderful world it brings about!
My bad, I mean the world we can make no judgements of good (wonderful, for example) or bad about. It is really hard to discuss anything without using language which makes value/moral judgments about things!
I will try to do better - @&$!* I did it again...
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