It's not just Hawking, you'll hear similar arguments from Dawkins, Harris, Kraus, and many more, and guess what, from a purely atheistic materialistic point of

It's not just Hawking, you'll hear similar arguments from Dawkins, Harris, Kraus, and many more, and guess what, from a purely atheistic materialistic point of view, they're right. They have made the arguments like incest cannot be shown to be wrong, or that suffering doesn't matter, that rape just is, like the stripes on a tiger, a phenomenon that is neither right nor wrong. That is the only rational ultimate conclusion of atheism.