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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 1:32 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: No, there is no good that comes from children starving, in and of itself. It's a horrible thing.

There is no good that comes from children starving, in and of itself, and also no possible moral justification for it unless it's to prevent even worse suffering which God necessarily does not have to allow if he truly is all powerful.

(May 26, 2018 at 1:32 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Which is exactly why God gave us the moral responsibility to feed the hungry, take care of each other, not be greedy, use our actions for good to help others, etc.

God didn't have to make that even necessary.

Quote: There is a greater good (presumably) that comes from God allowing free will and allowing the world to be as it would, naturally, without stepping in and resorting to divine intervention.

He doesn't have to choose between two crappy choices. That's the point.

Quote: If all of us chipped in, and if government leaders werent corrupt, I think the number of starving children would greately be reduced. God gave US that responsibility, I assume, for a reason.

He's a moral monster for allowing the suffering to happen in the first place instead of getting to the end 'net good' result right from the beginning.

(May 26, 2018 at 1:37 pm)Khemikal Wrote: When we see that someone else has failed to help someone in need we don;t just shrug.  Thats a god thing, apparently.

Indeed. If God's mission is to prove that we are morally superior to him he has succeeded.

[Image: einstein-evil.jpg]

This makes God the most evil of all by Einstein's logic.



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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by Edwardo Piet - May 26, 2018 at 1:37 pm

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