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EVEN IF there was no reason not to murder your neighbor unless god existed and forbade it, your desire to have murdering your neighbor be wrong is hardly evidence that god exists. Concluding from the fact that you want something to be true that it is true is CLASSIC human error.
I tried slapping someone once as part of an argument over free will vs determinism. I thought I'd make the point that if my slapping them was deterministic than they didn't have much cause to get mad at me for doing it. I couldn't bring myself to do it! And all that with no belief in god. You don't need god in order to want it to be wrong to murder your neighbor, I am living proof of that.
FWIW a punch on the arm is much easier than a slap.
And a punch on the arm is much easier to overlook than a slap. The point, had I been able to do it, would have been that my determinism-believing arguer had a POWERFUL intuition that I was the cause of his getting slapped, not some long sequence of dominoes falling against each other that started long before I was even conceived.
But a punch is much harder to overlook than a suppressed action!
I agree; a punch would have caused perhaps a less powerful intuition, but it would have caused the intuition you desired nonetheless.