RE: Militant Atheism?
September 19, 2023 at 1:15 am
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2023 at 1:21 am by FrustratedFool.)
(September 18, 2023 at 5:52 pm)Data Wrote:(September 18, 2023 at 1:40 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: Why should I not object if someone of a different ideology does the same?
Because it isn't fair. It's hypocritical. It's usually tyrannical and myopic.
(September 18, 2023 at 1:40 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: I think I'm right, doesn't mean I think they also are.
They think they're right. Live and let live.
(September 18, 2023 at 1:40 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: I think it's sensible that people who think harm bad monitor what people do with kids, I don't think it sensible that people who love harm have the same rights.
Actual harm? You may think a parent is doing harm to their children while being so stupid and unfair that you can't see someone might think the same about you. It's like banning people from a forum using the rules to silence the opposition. That's what the law is for. And yes, the law can be fucked with just like the rules, and yes the law and the rules seem more kind to some than others, but ultimately if you want to object you have to allow for others to.
(September 18, 2023 at 1:40 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: I prefer my ideology over other people's.
Everyone does that, dear.
It would only be hypocritical if I acted against my own professed ideology. It isn't hypocritical to think my opinion is best and others not. That's not hypocrisy. It may be other things, but it's not hypocritical.
I agree it's not fair. I put murderers behind bars and allow non-murderers to walk free. It's not equal.
They think they're right, but they are wrong. I don't believe in live and let live. I don't want to ignore my neighbour molesting his kids. I won't just let him have his opinion and lifestyle.
Actual harm. Yes, that's what we are talking about. I totally understand someone might think the same about me, but I would think they are wrong. A Nazi thinks they're in the right. I don't. That's not stupidity or hypocrisy. That's a difference of opinion. Yes,everyone prefers their own beliefs. So I'm no different. And if I'm a hypocrite so is everyone and it's moot.
In short, then, I reject your claim I'm being hypocritical.
So, again, why should I not object to religion? I think religion is harmful. I don't want it in society. If religionists don't want my ideology in society they're wrong. That's not hypocritical, it's ethnocentric perhaps, but not hypocritical.