RE: There Is No Sin!
March 26, 2018 at 7:28 am
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2018 at 7:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Many of us, Banned...don't have any such choice. Astreja happens to be one of those people..so am I. We could no more choose to believe in pixies than we could assent to your pixies regime. This, we're told, will lead to our destruction or punishment. Well, so be it, nothing I can do to stop that from happening, if it's something that happens.
Unless Jeffs about as good at destroying souls as he is at everything else, ofc.
As for the rest. Are laws the only reason -you- have for not doing x? I assume not. Wouldn;t it then stand to reason that laws are not the only reason (or in some cases any reason at all) that another person has for not doing x? I..personally, just don;t want to slap suckers out of babies mouths. The laws on that could change and change and change. That's irrelevant to me because I just don;t want to do it in the first place..and wouldn;t refer to any of those laws as an explanation for it;s moral status - just like I don't refer to any of gods laws as an explanation for moral status.
In fairness, I can see why laws would be useful to a person who utterly lacks a moral sense...........and that's precisely what we use them for, in the main. To compel people who just don't know better, or wouldn't care even if they did. Simpletons and aberrant minds. OFC, we end up dragnetting people compelled to commit crimes by their situation. The starving man who steals bread does know better and does care but he can't help but do it. It's unfortunate that it happens...but it's also amusing that gods law, in his great beneficent omniscience...... appears to be flawed in precisely this same way. Unlike our laws, however, god only has the one punishment. The harshest punishment..regardless of the nature of the crime or perpetrator.
Judge Jeff, super good at law, too!
Unless Jeffs about as good at destroying souls as he is at everything else, ofc.
As for the rest. Are laws the only reason -you- have for not doing x? I assume not. Wouldn;t it then stand to reason that laws are not the only reason (or in some cases any reason at all) that another person has for not doing x? I..personally, just don;t want to slap suckers out of babies mouths. The laws on that could change and change and change. That's irrelevant to me because I just don;t want to do it in the first place..and wouldn;t refer to any of those laws as an explanation for it;s moral status - just like I don't refer to any of gods laws as an explanation for moral status.
In fairness, I can see why laws would be useful to a person who utterly lacks a moral sense...........and that's precisely what we use them for, in the main. To compel people who just don't know better, or wouldn't care even if they did. Simpletons and aberrant minds. OFC, we end up dragnetting people compelled to commit crimes by their situation. The starving man who steals bread does know better and does care but he can't help but do it. It's unfortunate that it happens...but it's also amusing that gods law, in his great beneficent omniscience...... appears to be flawed in precisely this same way. Unlike our laws, however, god only has the one punishment. The harshest punishment..regardless of the nature of the crime or perpetrator.
Judge Jeff, super good at law, too!
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
