RE: If it wasn't for religion
January 28, 2019 at 11:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2019 at 11:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Then it would seem that anyone who has a goal of being good is fully supplied on compulsion you find acceptable even if they don't possess whatever superstitious beliefs you have about good.
Reality doesn't, in point of fact, reveal that we ought to do good - or even gush forth with revelation about what good is or isn't. We have a personal goal.
Your superstitions are irrelevant to my personal goals, and thus irrelevant to my moral compulsions. Just as MLKs superstitions are irrelevant to my agreement with his broad position on the issue of civil rights.
What you have, is a tired old line parroted endlessly and breathlessly by fundy dipshits..that you imagine to be some profound comment on the nature of morality or rights. You could disabuse yourself of this misapprehension quickly and thoroughly if you listened to what people are telling you, rather than insisting that they must be x y and z.
Reality doesn't, in point of fact, reveal that we ought to do good - or even gush forth with revelation about what good is or isn't. We have a personal goal.
Your superstitions are irrelevant to my personal goals, and thus irrelevant to my moral compulsions. Just as MLKs superstitions are irrelevant to my agreement with his broad position on the issue of civil rights.
What you have, is a tired old line parroted endlessly and breathlessly by fundy dipshits..that you imagine to be some profound comment on the nature of morality or rights. You could disabuse yourself of this misapprehension quickly and thoroughly if you listened to what people are telling you, rather than insisting that they must be x y and z.
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