RE: Loving and forgiving your enemies
December 12, 2015 at 10:33 am
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2015 at 11:12 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(December 12, 2015 at 10:31 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: I asked you in the past to either engage me or not, but abstain from dismissing me like that. I don't do it to you, and I could. I expect the same basic decency from you.
I'm not dismissing you by telling you that you're asking for someone to choose two options when those options wouldn't be the only two options.
Sure you can define the thought experiment in such a way so that no other options exist, but that's a very unhelpful and unrealistic thought experiment. In a real situation the only options wouldn't be "stab the person to death" or "turn the other cheek".