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Perhaps part of the difference between those who are satisfied/not satisfied with materialism is in what role something other than materialism could play here. I just don't get how any of the non-materialist 'answers' are more satisfying than the materialist ones. If it bothers you that morality is 'arbitrary', why is it more satisfying if it is the arbitrary preferences of god rather than the arbitrary preferences of humans? Just as I don't get how the answer 'because of god' to the question 'why is there something rather than nothing' is more satisfying for some people than the alternative materialist answer of 'it just is'.
As Eliezer says in Joy in the Merely Real:
The answers are satisfying because they're not really answers. They're part of a completely different value and belief system - a large, complex structure that has evolved because it is good at generating certain feelings in those who hold it; feelings which hijack those people's emotional systems to motivate them to spread it. Very much like the fly bacteria (or was it a virus?) that reprograms its victims' brains to climb upwards before they die so that their bodies will spread its spores more effectively.
I think that the standard example of that is a fungus that infects ants. And the bad pun is "Is it just a fluke?" that the ant climbs to the top of a straw, and that it's behind gets red and swollen like a berry, so that the birds are sure to eat it.
Rabies is another example.