If you're looking for a principle to justify not raping and murdering, the negative formulation of the so-called Golden Rule (aka, the "silver rule") is sufficient, in my opinion. Of course, if you need a principle to lean on to avoid wantonly harming others, then you're probably too fucked up for the principle to make a difference to you.
But if you need an immediate example of why the principle is sound for ordinarily constituted people, I'd be willing to set aside my own principles for the sake of instruction: come to my place, and after I've arranged to have you raped and tortured at length and just before I end you, you can tell me all about how insignificant you feel you are in the cosmic scheme of things and how my actions don't really matter -- perhaps even how my actions are justified since they don't matter. That kind of "big picture" view of things is an armchair luxury that is purchased cheaply. All it requires is security from the very thing you fear. I doubt it's the sentiment you'd express if things got real.
What do you say, troll?
But if you need an immediate example of why the principle is sound for ordinarily constituted people, I'd be willing to set aside my own principles for the sake of instruction: come to my place, and after I've arranged to have you raped and tortured at length and just before I end you, you can tell me all about how insignificant you feel you are in the cosmic scheme of things and how my actions don't really matter -- perhaps even how my actions are justified since they don't matter. That kind of "big picture" view of things is an armchair luxury that is purchased cheaply. All it requires is security from the very thing you fear. I doubt it's the sentiment you'd express if things got real.
What do you say, troll?
