More needs to be said on this point:
A judge can morally sentence a criminal to a punishment because of their crimes, not because being a judge somehow allows him/her to do as he/she wills with just anyone. Society seeks to punish wrongdoing in an effort to discourage and rehabilitate.
Hell, by contrast, is not a punishment for crimes. It is a place of infinite torture for those who were not gullible or who were raised with the wrong religion. Further, Hell can't discourage any wrongdoing because it isn't revealed until after we die. It can't rehabilitate because there is no parole. It serves no purpose except to torture.
Now the mafia don, in contrast to the judge, can do as he wills with anyone. It's not about morality. It's about strength and fear.
Your comment that might makes right is another example of your twisted (or childish) sense of morality and how it hasn't progressed past Kohlberg's preconventional phase of moral development. Before you say "ad hominem", it's useful as an example of how religious thinking stunts our thinking about morality instead of helping to elucidate for us what is moral and what morality is.
(June 15, 2013 at 9:54 am)John V Wrote: A judge can morally sentence someone to death. A mafia don cannot. Actually, within the mafia’s morality, the mafia don can morally sentence someone to death. Society considers that immoral. Since society as a whole has more power than the mafia, if he’s caught, he goes to jail. People don’t like the phrase, but in the end, might does make right for all practical purposes.
A judge can morally sentence a criminal to a punishment because of their crimes, not because being a judge somehow allows him/her to do as he/she wills with just anyone. Society seeks to punish wrongdoing in an effort to discourage and rehabilitate.
Hell, by contrast, is not a punishment for crimes. It is a place of infinite torture for those who were not gullible or who were raised with the wrong religion. Further, Hell can't discourage any wrongdoing because it isn't revealed until after we die. It can't rehabilitate because there is no parole. It serves no purpose except to torture.
Now the mafia don, in contrast to the judge, can do as he wills with anyone. It's not about morality. It's about strength and fear.
Your comment that might makes right is another example of your twisted (or childish) sense of morality and how it hasn't progressed past Kohlberg's preconventional phase of moral development. Before you say "ad hominem", it's useful as an example of how religious thinking stunts our thinking about morality instead of helping to elucidate for us what is moral and what morality is.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
