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Poll: How do you account for psychopaths?
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I don’t believe God is responsible for our morality
50.00%
4 50.00%
I don’t accept that psychopaths really exist
0%
0 0%
Psychopaths are choosing to ignore their innate sense of right and wrong
0%
0 0%
God mistakenly misses out psychopaths when granting morality
0%
0 0%
It’s the psychopath’s fault they have no empathy
25.00%
2 25.00%
It’s because of “the fall”
0%
0 0%
Other
25.00%
2 25.00%
Total 8 vote(s) 100%
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Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
Random extra comment:

I don't consider a dog who kills a cat to be immoral. Of course, if I was in the place of the dog and I killed the cat, I would consider myself immoral. But I'm not the dog. This is a similar situation. The morality of the action is my personal assessment. Everyone makes their own. Some people may consider the dog to be immoral. If I want to change that person's mind, or they want to change mine, then we need to present arguments. Announcing ourselves to be correct, or saying our opinion just happens to line up with "objective morality" is not going to change anyone's mind. I'm not, of course, disputing the fact that the dog killed the cat.

This judgement, like all judgements, is one of utility. I find no utiliy in considering a dog to be immoral for killing a cat. I still, however, want to protect cats from harm. That is a separate matter as far as I'm concerned. I'm not trying to protect them from "immoral acts".
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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by robvalue - May 24, 2018 at 1:46 am

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