@FlatAssembler
I think it's a very good comparison in the narrow sense of silly people believing in silly things for silly reasons, but not so much in a broader sense of people being shunned or punished for not accepting Flat Earthism.
I'd like to address your point about earthquakes, though. The difference between an earthquake and the Holocaust - in a moral sense - has been referred to as 'natural evil' vs 'moral evil'. The difference is that an instance of natural evil, like an earthquake, doesn't require a moral agent, while moral evil (for obvious reasons) does.
This has been called into question by some philosophers. The reasoning runs something like, 'If God created, is in charge of, sustains, and operates the universe, then acts of so-called 'natural evil' do indeed have a moral agent (God) who causes them. Therefore, ALL evil is moral evil and natural evil does not exist'. The argument is fraught with problems - mostly definitional - but interesting all the same.
Boru
I think it's a very good comparison in the narrow sense of silly people believing in silly things for silly reasons, but not so much in a broader sense of people being shunned or punished for not accepting Flat Earthism.
I'd like to address your point about earthquakes, though. The difference between an earthquake and the Holocaust - in a moral sense - has been referred to as 'natural evil' vs 'moral evil'. The difference is that an instance of natural evil, like an earthquake, doesn't require a moral agent, while moral evil (for obvious reasons) does.
This has been called into question by some philosophers. The reasoning runs something like, 'If God created, is in charge of, sustains, and operates the universe, then acts of so-called 'natural evil' do indeed have a moral agent (God) who causes them. Therefore, ALL evil is moral evil and natural evil does not exist'. The argument is fraught with problems - mostly definitional - but interesting all the same.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
