RE: The Purpose of Pain
February 9, 2021 at 1:09 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2021 at 1:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You tell me. If you could prevent a person from dying, would you? That's exactly what the rock throwing scenario asks. Is there a moral dilemma here, for the god you believe in, such that it simply can't decide which of the two interests it should serve?
Or is this more of a bargaining with the divine kind of thing? Where I'm asked whether I'd put up with you or a god watching people hitting me in the back of the head with rocks for a century provided that I get eternity when the big one finally knocks me dead? OFC I wouldn't put up with that - if you were a cop you'd get fired. If you were a judge you'd be removed from the bench. Eternity with the people who've attempted to strike this bargain with me is no bargain in the first place.
Do you hold a builder accountable when the slum he erected collapses? Do you hold authorities accountable when they sit and passively watch injustice? It seems to me that answers to these questions have more to do with whether anyone will take you or your god up on that offer, than anything about a themepark in the sky. Here on earth, we'll confiscate your theme park to pay for damages for either of those things.
We can insist that there is some huge reward, but there are huge awards in cases of confiscation and damages too. The injustice isn't erased no matter the size of the reward. If someone slaps you in the face and then gives you a million lollipops..they still slapped you in the face. The situation couldn't be less dire if it's a dead child we're being asked to consider, rather than a slap in the face. A dead child because the builders slum collapsed. Or because the authorities sat and watched them be murdered by people with rocks...rocks, mind you, that they probably got from the rubble of said slumlords building.
Or is this more of a bargaining with the divine kind of thing? Where I'm asked whether I'd put up with you or a god watching people hitting me in the back of the head with rocks for a century provided that I get eternity when the big one finally knocks me dead? OFC I wouldn't put up with that - if you were a cop you'd get fired. If you were a judge you'd be removed from the bench. Eternity with the people who've attempted to strike this bargain with me is no bargain in the first place.
Do you hold a builder accountable when the slum he erected collapses? Do you hold authorities accountable when they sit and passively watch injustice? It seems to me that answers to these questions have more to do with whether anyone will take you or your god up on that offer, than anything about a themepark in the sky. Here on earth, we'll confiscate your theme park to pay for damages for either of those things.
We can insist that there is some huge reward, but there are huge awards in cases of confiscation and damages too. The injustice isn't erased no matter the size of the reward. If someone slaps you in the face and then gives you a million lollipops..they still slapped you in the face. The situation couldn't be less dire if it's a dead child we're being asked to consider, rather than a slap in the face. A dead child because the builders slum collapsed. Or because the authorities sat and watched them be murdered by people with rocks...rocks, mind you, that they probably got from the rubble of said slumlords building.
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