(March 20, 2016 at 12:18 pm)little_monkey Wrote:(March 20, 2016 at 9:16 am)Harris Wrote: You are talking about “inbuilt mechanism of self-correction” that mechanism is called conscience which is part of every person by nature.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY WRONG ON THIS ISSUE.
If that was the case then every crackpot theory would be valid because everyone can honestly say that it comes from their conscience. I know that you are speaking from your conscience. I don't doubt that. But since there are 7 billion people on this planet, each person with a conscience, then you would get 7 billion different theories. There is only ONE way out of this mess, and that is, a theory is only good if there is empirical evidence supporting it.
Every event and every behaviour in nature has a specific pattern, likewise human conscience too has a precise pattern and it cannot be drastically different from person to person. The belief in divine recompense can easily regulate small differences that people may have due to their different levels of intellects. However, there are certain unalterable values that gives equal standards of repulsion or fascination at any level of human intellect. For example, to have repulsive feelings against rape of an innocent child is a universal sentiment. But if someone enjoys the rape of an innocent child that is a sign of a dead conscience.
Radical differences may happen only by suppressing the conscience wilfully and systematically. For example, Hitler did not believe in conscience and that disbelief inflame his animosity to a level where he transformed into a radically merciless monster.
It is only conscience and belief in divine recompense that keep people from being worse than ferocious beasts who only have instincts and reflexes.