RE: Middle School Teacher's Memorial
February 19, 2015 at 1:48 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2015 at 1:53 pm by Pyrrho.)
(February 19, 2015 at 12:18 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(February 18, 2015 at 6:55 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: The satanist example is used because it is the most "feared" in the community. Most of these "satanist" organizations are atheists using that term in order to prove exactly that point. So when the Gideons hand out Bibles at school, the "satanists" prove the point to the community by handing out coloring books with satanic themes. The result is usually what the "satanists" wanted in the first place---no one gets to hand anything out.
In other words they are just trolling...
No. With trolling, the point is just to annoy people. In this case, upsetting people is merely a means to an end, not the point of what they are doing.
This is analogous to the difference between someone cutting on someone because one likes cutting on someone, and cutting on someone to remove a splinter. There is a world of difference between these actions.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
