Social Approval or Principles?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I read the OP with intrigue, but then around half way down page 1 we got back to this:

Are you sure about that? I can guarantee you that the slaves themselves sure didn't disapprove of anyone being against their enslavement.




-Dad...I was thinking. Why do we have slaves? Aren't they people too?
*SMACK*
-Quit yer' yappin', sonny, and go bring me a glass o' whiskey!

Ah, yes, I'm sure it went down something like that every time.


Do you think so little of us here at these forums to think that we would just toss out our good sense and rationale? If we were to act like this, then we wouldn't be atheists at all, considering we are outnumbered by theists.


All of us, same as how we're all still atheists despite being completely outnumbered by theists. The reverse can be employed too; how are you still a dumbshit when you're surrounded all the time by extremely intelligent individuals on this website? You see, majority does not always change the way a person thinks.


Every single society? Nope.

Someone from the middle ages would adapt to living among us. Someone from the stone age would do the same. Someone from the future would be another good example. We can do this all day, Koolaid.


This is actually a good question. You see...we don't know, but we can definitely expect some things to remain as constants. I would hope that we might even be better at that time. Perhaps by then, someone being irrational and weird will have been proven to be a false idea.


Another good question, but is it the question? This definitely depends on the individual. For me, I care more about principles and what they can do for society when adhered to.

I can give you a better example, of people that believe in the non aggression principle vs. statists, who believe the government initiating force is right. We are vastly outnumbered, and whenever I bring up the logical arguments for the non aggression principle, I just get attacked, insulted, and ostracised for questioning the ethics of a centrally coercive entity. So I don't think many people on this forum care about the principle of atheism, which is rationality, if they can't apply that rationality to other areas. It shows they don't get something fundamental, and/or don't want to.

Statetheists is a better word.

Just can't keep it in your pants can you Kool-aid? Man you must be so angry when you go to sleep that the government is telling you when it's your bed time.