RE: What are the evidence for no god?
October 18, 2015 at 3:59 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2015 at 4:00 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
I agree with TheRocketSurgeon on this one.
Yeah Blondie was rude but he/she was not rude out of willful ignorance IMO - I think it was just ignorance, I don't think Blondie is intentionally ignorant, cruel or rude.
Besides I don't even believe in free will so while it would be better Blondie wasn't rude... Blondie had his/her own motivations for his/her behavior and the point is the behavior is wrong and hopefully will change but I couldn't begrudge his/her character for it.
To paraphrase Sam Harris: dropping a belief in free will doesn't make us fatalists and choices still matter but it does allow us to feel compassion for even the worst human beings that ever lived, and still be totally against their behavior and determined to do something about it whenever we are able.
Yeah Blondie was rude but he/she was not rude out of willful ignorance IMO - I think it was just ignorance, I don't think Blondie is intentionally ignorant, cruel or rude.
Besides I don't even believe in free will so while it would be better Blondie wasn't rude... Blondie had his/her own motivations for his/her behavior and the point is the behavior is wrong and hopefully will change but I couldn't begrudge his/her character for it.
To paraphrase Sam Harris: dropping a belief in free will doesn't make us fatalists and choices still matter but it does allow us to feel compassion for even the worst human beings that ever lived, and still be totally against their behavior and determined to do something about it whenever we are able.