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Short also argues that, atheists tend not to focus upon the concept of existence beyond life, because, if one dies with nothing beyond one's life, then whether someone is good or bad, they get the same result, and the only logical course of action for any person to live would be [[nihilism]], to live for oneself without regard to how it affects others.  It would mean that someone like [[Hitler]], or [[Stalin]] would, at the end of their life, receive the same result as [[Mother Theresa]]; no matter how bad or rotten you were, you get the same result as someone who was the holiest of holies.  Also, he points out that if human beings have no existence beyond this life, "then the murder of six million Jews during [[The Holocaust]] is of no more significance than the killing of six million [[cockroach]]es when a tenement is fumigated."

Short also argues that, atheists tend not to focus upon the concept of existence beyond life, because, if one dies with nothing beyond one's life, then whether someone is good or bad, they get the same result, and the only logical course of action for any person to live would be [[nihilism]], to live for oneself without regard to how it affects others.  It would mean that someone like [[Hitler]], or [[Stalin]] would, at the end of their life, receive the same result as [[Mother Theresa]]; no matter how bad or rotten you were, you get the same result as someone who was the holiest of holies.  Also, he points out that if human beings have no existence beyond this life, "then the murder of six million Jews during [[The Holocaust]] is of no more significance than the killing of six million [[cockroach]]es when a tenement is fumigated."

 

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