[js1138]

I think the answer is he can think of no rational reason, besides the dictates of a Deity, to make any moral decisions.

Anybody can learn to recite a dictionary definition of virtue. We have a lot of dictionary mongers online in this thread.

It strikes me that these folks are incapable of understanding the internalized desire to be a good person, to help one's children and, by extension, build a just society for one's descendants to live in.

I fully appreciate the difficulty of defining specifically what is to be done. That is what politics is about, deciding what needs to be done to improve the world.

I am curious, however, about people who aren't self-motivated to make things better.

[cornelis]

It strikes me that these folks are incapable of understanding the internalized desire to be a good person, to help one's children and, by extension, build a just society for one's descendants to live in.

I trust you would be courteous enough to accept that I too recognize people's desire to be good, to help one's chikldren, and buid a just society.

I will add also that the problem of evil is just as real.