RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 27, 2013 at 9:12 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2013 at 9:13 am by Faith No More.)
MysticKnight Wrote:Sure. I will give an example of a close family member. He has been tortured in Jail, kicked out of his country, all for being political active. He is political active to get the people to remove a dictatorship. He suffers a lot as a result. He is currently away from his family.
I believe his resilience and risking suffering and his sacrifice, outweighs the suffering he went and is going through.
This is just an example. But what I really meant is not on a individual to individual basis. It has more to do with over all in the system, the opportunity of praise outweighs the over all suffering.
What I mean by praiseworthy, is that you are worthy of praise, not that you are praised by people.
Would his actions not have been just as praiseworthy if he had not suffered as a result?
As for the opportunity for praise outweighing the overall suffering, how does that justify the suffering of the individual? In other words, to use your family member as an example, how would the praise he earned justify a child being sexually abused?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell