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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?
(May 26, 2018 at 11:36 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:
(May 26, 2018 at 8:53 am)Edwardo Piet Wrote: There's that 'net good' comment again . . .

So it's okay for these awful things to happen if it leads to a 'net good'?

I don't know what you mean by "it's ok". Tragedies are always a horrible thing, and never ok things. I certainly don't think what happened to me was ok. 

But we don't know what the long term consequences would be, both in this world and in the next, eternal one, if this world were one where God always stepped in to prevent anything and everything that would cause us suffering. I assume things would overall somehow not work out very well, otherwise He would do it.

3 million children die of hunger each year, you're telling me that this necessary for some greater good? Why can't God just eliminate suffering and death altogether, it seems to me that God if he is all powerful could reach maximum goodness without all of the death, pain, and suffering.



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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by Mr.wizard - May 26, 2018 at 11:46 am

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