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Rants and Stuff / Re: QUESTION
« on: September 12, 2008, 09:20:10 PM »
Sometimes things sound awful because of an unfair cultural distinction between what is acceptable and what is not without reason. In fact, that's usually why things sound awful--right and wrong are concepts that exist, but you'd be hard pressed to get everybody to agree to your perspective of right and wrong. How do you know yours is right with such conviction that you'd be willing to trample on other people's ability to live their lives.
If I thought that believing in God was wrong because it caused people to waste their lives in a pointless chase after a non-existent entity, which essentially led them to a pointless life of pain followed by death, is it okay for me to outlaw the belief in God? Or the belief in a God other than my own?
If I think that defending yourself against an attacker with fatal force, even when it is the only means necessary, was wrong because I perscribed to the "turn the other cheek" mentality, is it okay for me to outlaw killings in defense? What YOU think is right and wrong because of your personal beliefs are what YOU believe. Until you can use a non-biased reasoning for it (like, for example, getting a large amount of scientists to agree that an embryo can feel pain and is thus warranted the right to not be harmed), you have no right to press your morals on another person, no matter how strongly you feel. If you want to be able to press your own morality into law, live in a theocracy.
If I thought that believing in God was wrong because it caused people to waste their lives in a pointless chase after a non-existent entity, which essentially led them to a pointless life of pain followed by death, is it okay for me to outlaw the belief in God? Or the belief in a God other than my own?
If I think that defending yourself against an attacker with fatal force, even when it is the only means necessary, was wrong because I perscribed to the "turn the other cheek" mentality, is it okay for me to outlaw killings in defense? What YOU think is right and wrong because of your personal beliefs are what YOU believe. Until you can use a non-biased reasoning for it (like, for example, getting a large amount of scientists to agree that an embryo can feel pain and is thus warranted the right to not be harmed), you have no right to press your morals on another person, no matter how strongly you feel. If you want to be able to press your own morality into law, live in a theocracy.