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erations. According to Dawkins, there is no other purpose behind
the universe: Man and the universe are both products of coinci-

dence and chaos. This belief will inflict great despair and unhappi-
ness, since nothing has any significance for someone who believes
that at the moment of death, he will simply cease to exist.
Friendship, love and good deeds give no joy to someone who imag-
ines that they will receive no reward and will not survive in any
case.
In addition, this distorted moral fabric will make people imag-
ine that their evil deeds will go unrecompensed. That will lead
them to imagine that they can conceal those deeds to avoid being
punished for them, and therefore feel no compunction or hesitation
over lying, hypocrisy, gossiping, making unjust profits, theft and