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Reponsibility- In general people are inherantly more selfish than not therefore the notion that you're held responsible in life after death definately is a means for people to hold themselves accountable. As humans we're all trying to survive be happy and things like that etc, so in an attempt to feel good and be happy we'll often overlook the feelings of others in order to further our own agenda. I"m guilty of this sometimes myself. For example a friend of mine sort of pissed me off and I was really pissed considering not being his friend, however this friend had a lot of value to me. Thus, I thought about how basically not being friends with him would effect me negatively. How it would effect me overrode the principle and also his feelings on the situation.
Agnostics- As you said I doubt they think about their beliefs in depth.
Atheists- Those who may not appear to be atheists, might be, but they don't want to be thought of differently or have to explain thier position so it's just left unsaid.
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