RE: The Moral Challenge
October 30, 2013 at 7:26 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2013 at 7:35 pm by GodsRevolt.)
(October 30, 2013 at 6:45 pm)plaincents822 Wrote: God God God God God God God
Your move.
Knight to G7.
Amen, I say unto you, checkmate!
(October 30, 2013 at 7:24 pm)Cinjin Wrote: I don't get it. Don't you already know what a good person is???
If BAD is treating people like shit than GOOD =
If BAD is forcing your religion onto other people's daily lives than GOOD =
If BAD is cheating people out of their money than GOOD =
If BAD is miscellaneous action with a negative outcome than GOOD =
You get where I'm coming from???? Good is not any one thing, nor is it necessarily quantifiable. But one things for sure, you'll know it when you see it.
That is why I asked for an analogy - because it is hard to sum up in just a dictionary definition kind of way.
Did I offend somehow?
(October 30, 2013 at 7:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'm not sure I understand the nature of the 'challenge' here. While I make it a point never to go out of my way to harm other people unnecessarily, someone else's emotional response to my own actions doesn't trouble me all that much.
In other words, while I try to behave myself as much as possible, I'm not going to conduct myself in such a was as to preclude hurting someone else's feeling.
Boru
I've thought about that before, do you mean like being completely straight forward about what you see and do?
I tried it before (with my wife) and it was a definite strain on the marriage.
If I am right about what you are saying, do you think that tact comes into it at all? Or do you think that people just need to face up to hard truths in a sink or swim sort of way?
". . . let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist." -G. K. Chesterton
