RE: Would you rather live under an oppressive religious or securlar government?
January 18, 2013 at 2:06 am
(January 18, 2013 at 1:52 am)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: My problem is, what is the standerd on which one can compare and rate evil?
I would never tell a Russian: "Yeah we fucked up your country, but Stalin to was bad."
The perputators in crime have to stand trial and be judged individualy, and they have to be judged because of their crimes.
The crimes of others dont justify you to commit a crime.
When polaris argues that both a secular regime and religious regime would be horrible, he forgets the fact that both of them are horrible, and that the crimes of one regime do not justify nore "lighten up" the crimes of the oposing one.
What kind of a world would we live in if it would be like that? If everyone could declare himself judge and executionor justifying ones crimes with the crimes of others?
Can you take "good" or "evil" into a lab?
No, but we are not different. We create as a species "us vs them" because we want resources.
Quote:What kind of a world would we live in if it would be like that? If everyone could declare himself judge and executionor justifying ones crimes with the crimes of others?
Do you think women should be forced to submit to men? Do you think that majority rules all the time? Because many majorities in the middle east find it quite ok to tell women to be second class citizens. You should not judge that?
That is why we have elections , that is why we have bans on absolute power. So that any "judging" we do in a pluralistic society is guided, not by our own personal bias, but something we overlap on. Like a 25 mile speed limit in a school zone.
