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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?
RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
Free will incoming...

I've explained this a million times before, but we can still have free will without being able to do horrible things to each other or get hideous diseases. We already have extremely limited free will. In fact, our will could be massively opened up to include all manner of things currently impossible, while losing the ability to hurt each other. Everyone wins.

If people for some reason wants to suffer, they could have the free will to have that suffering for as long as they wanted it. If it never existed in the first place, why would they want it though?

We would, of course, also be unable to get bored (unless we want to). So there goes that defence.

I'm not saying I'd do a better job than God. I'm saying I'd do a much better job.

I wouldn't have the egotistical obsession with them having to worship or "accept" me either. But even if I did, they could reject me without having to prove the point by impaling babies.
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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by robvalue - May 26, 2018 at 9:50 am

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