(October 23, 2014 at 1:10 pm)Drich Wrote:(October 23, 2014 at 12:01 pm)Stimbo Wrote: So what are we doing here, entertaining a scenario in which someone is defined to be totally irredeemable and malevolent and the only solution is to burn them alive - and then you seem surprised when someone advocates burning them alive?
no judgement just showing a chink in the armor of morality most of you wear.
How is following a scenario that you painted, in which you get to choose the allowable parameters, a reflection on anyone's morality other than your own? What you're doing, basically, is asking us to draw you a picture of a witch being burned, then pointing and saying, "hey everybody - look what the nasty atheists have drawn! I thought they were supposed to be the moral ones!"
By applying your method, I can prove I can read your mind. I want you to think of a number from 1 to 9. Rules: it cannot be prime. Its English name must be less than four letters long. That name cannot start or end with a vowel.
Were you thinking of the number 6? Hey, look at that! And you had a totally free choice, too! *
* The words "totally" and "free" used for decoration purposes only. Choice may not be valid in all countries and jurisdictions.
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No, seriously - they can really fuck you up.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
