(September 26, 2021 at 7:31 am)Ahriman Wrote:(September 26, 2021 at 7:26 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Why is it false equivalency? Is it because you don't like BDSM, but you like cars and the internet?Cars and the Internet serve a utilitarian purpose. BDSM does not.
Needless to say that cars and the internet are not always used for utilitarianism.
Besides, who are you say that BDSM is not utilitarian? If it makes someone a happy and better functioning person in society, then it's utilitarian.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
