RE: Why Anarcho-Capitalism Is a Canard and Its Implications for Atheism
January 18, 2017 at 9:38 pm
(January 18, 2017 at 9:32 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Hi log. (OMG, CL's gonna love your user name)
Um, I'm a little slow and dense. What exactly does the OP have to do with or have implications for atheists/ism?
Inasmuch as there is any theoretical foundation for a social order, atheism seems to have only one option, and that is private property - yet that very foundation negates itself by collapsing into totalitarianism and war, by the nature of private property: the issuance of threats to control others' behavior. This seems to me to be a severe problem that atheists might want to pay attention to, in order to solve it - that is, find a foundation for social order that does not collapse into totalitarianism and war, and thus risk the extinction of the human race - as any order predicated upon threats and violence must so collapse. If atheism does not afford such a foundation, and if an individual atheist would like something better than the world promised by private property, that would be a reason to look elsewhere for a foundation for a better world.
Quote:And if you don't mind, which god exists?
I believe in Jesus Christ.[/quote]