> even among the non-religious and even atheist population Just because one proclaims to not believe in God doesn't free them from the values that were drilled

> even among the non-religious and even atheist population Just because one proclaims to not believe in God doesn't free them from the values that were drilled in their head during childhood. So many people proclaim to be "atheists" but otherwise strongly believe in and defend Christian values (Bill Gates is a prominent example). It's not just childhood, it's social pressure. It's extremely hard to publicly hold values that go contrary to the group, even more so when those contrarian values don't bring success and therefore don't have much to show for themselves. Diogenes was a true hero.