(August 1, 2014 at 4:43 pm)A Theist Wrote: You're spending way too much time in Alice's fantasy Wonderland where everything is foggy and distorted.
I really really wish everything was foggy. I really do.
Quote:In the real world there's no gray area as you suppose. There's a clear distintion between black and white and good and evil.
In the real world... there are only shades of gray. The whitest white are the stars, and they're nothing on an antimatter annihilation. THe blackest black is beyond the edge of the universe, where there is nothing, and which the universe expanding at the speed of light is invisible to.
Our world, the real world, lies between those two points... therefore there is no utter black, and there is no utter white.
Good and evil vary from person to person, and different societies judge them differently. Morals are the illusion that keeps society sleeping peacefully at night.
Quote:Rapists are evil people who have abandoned self control over their urges to commit sexual violence on hapless and unsuspecting victims. This is more of the same idiotic bullshit where there's empathy for the rapist and the victims are ignored.
Rapists are usually normal people reacting in a normal way as life reacts. Falling off the wagon isn't 'abandoning' self control... it is as simple as leaning backwards, and then it's gone.
I usually feel sorry for both rapist and victim... I would say that it is the cold and bitter parts of humanity that refuse to recognize the pity or the pain of either on of these parties.
It is not I who ignores the pain of others... but you, my friend
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day