@Max, sorry I did miss your post.
"Why do you care about Africans starving to death less than you care about poor people in your immediate vicinity is probably a better question"
I don't.
"ancient Roman society regarded empathy as a sign of a character flaw."
Yeah, that's what I've been saying, it seems to hinder survival of the individual not help it, I find it strange that we would evolve with negative traits.("negative" in the eyes of "survival of the fittest")
"Now let me re-raise the question I put to you in my last answer. Why do you feel that this is more nihilist that the concept that we are all basically bad and reliant on an external benign dictator to instil in us the few positive qualities we have. To me one of the most horrific qualities of religion is that it debases us in relation to an imaginary being that is supposed to be all-good but actually behaves incredibly badly."
The problem of evil.. difficult question.. free will? room for evolution? purpose?
"Why do you care about Africans starving to death less than you care about poor people in your immediate vicinity is probably a better question"
I don't.
"ancient Roman society regarded empathy as a sign of a character flaw."
Yeah, that's what I've been saying, it seems to hinder survival of the individual not help it, I find it strange that we would evolve with negative traits.("negative" in the eyes of "survival of the fittest")
"Now let me re-raise the question I put to you in my last answer. Why do you feel that this is more nihilist that the concept that we are all basically bad and reliant on an external benign dictator to instil in us the few positive qualities we have. To me one of the most horrific qualities of religion is that it debases us in relation to an imaginary being that is supposed to be all-good but actually behaves incredibly badly."
The problem of evil.. difficult question.. free will? room for evolution? purpose?
