(June 12, 2013 at 10:11 pm)crud Wrote: Love, moral values, and meaning is just an self delusion, no different to the delusion of god.Feelings are never illusions, one could even argue they are the most real, most immediate thing there is. Morality to me is just a feeling of what is right and what is wrong.
Compassion is my most cherished feature of my mental realm, even more important than reason. Each one of us is ultimately thrown into this world quite helpless and everyone is just trying to get by as good as they can. I want to feel compassion for everyone, but particularly for animals, they are so helpless and voiceless in a world controlled by man.
I guess that's just Buddhist indoctrination talking, because I can't come up with a reasonable explanation for why I feel compassion is so important.
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
