RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 18, 2013 at 2:32 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2013 at 2:34 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(September 18, 2013 at 2:22 pm)John V Wrote:(September 18, 2013 at 2:07 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Even a lizard can suffer. I'm not sure about ants. To deny the existence of suffering is to deny your own experience.Exactly...if all thoughts and actions are preprogrammed by god, there is no such thing as my "own experience."
That doesn't seem to follow. If I build a robot and it does exactly what I program it to do, the things that happen to it as a result are still happening to it. If it loses an arm, it loses an arm. If I program it to feel pain and it feels it, it is what is feeling pain.