Quote:Or maybe seems most human beings like music and this website being a location where people communicate music is inevitably going to come up at some point.
You're chatting some tin foil hat level crazy dude.
Why understand ethics in a way that emphasizes intentions and gives people the benefit of the doubt? Is what I am saying really tin foil level crazy?
Two little kids get arrested for stealing spray paint. They walk down the hall and the police starts integorrating them. One cop starts playing good cop, the other cop starts playing cop. The kids confess everything.
When the kids get out, one kid looks at the other kid and goes "man, did you see those police officers? You see how I was able to manipulate that one? What an idiot! I got him to like me"
That is what you are doing now.
Understanding ethics as a purely intentional, non consequentialist field and seeing people involved in a culture war as having pure motives is what you would call tin foil hat.
The people the fight the culture war realize their strength is in the bars, in the rock clubs, in the liquor stores, in the bedroom. Why do you think the Democrats let Hollywood endorse their candidates and don't rebuke them? They don't care about the sex and the drugs and it helps them.
The same is true for the atheist movement. They don't care and it helps them.
So my response to that is: "Atheists use drugs, sex, rock and roll, and adolescent rebellion to fuel their movement". This is not tin foil hat, this is true.
