RE: Why Do Atheists Criticize People's Beliefs?
June 3, 2017 at 3:46 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2017 at 3:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 2, 2017 at 9:44 pm)Valyza1 Wrote: Personally, I agree that he's a terrible person. I also think A is an equally terrible person. But your opinion and my opinion of what kind of a person either one is, is irrelevant. I'm starting to get the sense that no matter how much I try to clarify this, you're just going to keep accusing me of trying to "make something stick". Not even sure what you mean by that, but it's getting tiring and starting to seem pointless to continue.It was your thought experiment. Expressing frustration in the face of not getting your desired conclusion is pointless.
Quote:I assume both of us believe there are behaviors that are more or less objectively good and objectively bad. If that's the case, then whether or not a person is acting according to their beliefs has no bearing on whether or not what they are doing is good or bad. Do you agree?No, I don't. I think that people who act out their religious beliefs in terrible ways are good people who have been compelled to do a bad thing. The guy who slices up his daughters genitalia thinks he's helping her. In your thought experiment, that's how it played out. We had good people doing good things, and bad people doing bad things. Then, with beleif, a good man doing a bad thing. An anomalous point of data.
If the question is what was more heavily weighted, belief or personality...in your thought experiment.......belief, and obviously so. It was the only instance in which the outcome was not like the others.
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