(March 4, 2019 at 10:55 am)Brian37 Wrote: I don't care if someone feels bad when I point out a reality.If someone says the world is square, and you say no, it's actually round, I don't see that as an intent to wound. They might be upset, but it's not as if your goal was to make them feel bad.
That's not really what I'm talking about.
There are people who would, when they discovered you disagreed with them, write sentences designed to make you feel terrible. Not to improve your thinking or correct your error, but in the hope that you would suffer. (Not the worst suffering imaginable, but more than is required.)
Sometimes I suspect there is a sort of Protestant moral component built into many atheist arguments. Not only is being wrong factually wrong, it is also something we want to punish.
Why should we punish someone for disagreement about the definition of a word? Or some interpretation of a sociological issue?
Isn't the desire to make others feel bad, unnecessarily, just the sign that a person is bad?
