(July 6, 2013 at 1:47 pm)Inigo Wrote:(July 6, 2013 at 1:42 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Why would the person issuing the commands have to have control over our interests in the afterlife?
So that we'd always have reason to comply with the commands.
If I tell you to do something you don't necessarily have reason to do it. If morality tells you to do something you do, even if you don't want to.
I assume we have reason to do what is in our interests. If there is a god and an afterlife and the god has control over our interests in that afterlife - and is vengeful - then her instructions to us are instructions we all have reason to comply with, even if we don't want to.
Why would we have to have a reason to comply with the demands outside of our interest in our current lives?
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
