When I finally realized that I was mistaken about theism, I did one thing which I’m glad of– I decided to keep my system of ethics until I had what I saw as really good reasons to change bits of it. (This kept the nihilist period I inevitably passed through from doing too much damage to me and the people I cared about, and of course in time I realized that it was enough that I cared about these things, that the universe wasn’t requiring me to act like a nihilist.)
Eventually, I did change some of my major ethical beliefs, but they were the ones that genuinely rested on false metaphysics, and not the ones that were truly a part of me.
This reminds me:
When I finally realized that I was mistaken about theism, I did one thing which I’m glad of– I decided to keep my system of ethics until I had what I saw as really good reasons to change bits of it. (This kept the nihilist period I inevitably passed through from doing too much damage to me and the people I cared about, and of course in time I realized that it was enough that I cared about these things, that the universe wasn’t requiring me to act like a nihilist.)
Eventually, I did change some of my major ethical beliefs, but they were the ones that genuinely rested on false metaphysics, and not the ones that were truly a part of me.