(August 31, 2016 at 4:10 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Terrifyingly, I have witnessed both Huggy and Drich defending this as "moral", or at the very least, argue that the punishment fits the crime.
Yeah, sadly, I know.
I am fully expecting Huggy to do Olympian levels of mental gymnastics to justify the morality of this.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.