RE: How does your WV inform your politics?
August 30, 2023 at 9:15 am
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2023 at 9:18 am by FrustratedFool.)
(August 30, 2023 at 9:04 am)Angrboda Wrote:(August 30, 2023 at 9:00 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: I'd say discriminating against people has been absolutely necessary for civilization and in the long run countering Nazism, Stalinism, Islamism, and beliefs like 'I should get to kill' or 'I'm not subject to law' or 'disease is caused by miasma' or 'gays should be killed', has been the cause of enormous reductions in harm and suffering.
Generally speaking, we discriminate based upon acts, not beliefs. And that's what happened with the Nazis, Stalinists, and some Islamists. So you're arguing something different than the examples you cite.
Am I?
What law have I proposed that discriminates against a behaviourless belief?
An yes, I totally agree with permitting liberty when it does no harm. I just think religion is a collection of ideologies that results in harm. Can you name a real world religion that doesn't damage society in some way and which we would be better off with than without?
