(August 23, 2010 at 5:17 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: It is a moral distinction if he's a personal ethical egoist. From Wiki: "[...]a personal ethical egoist would hold that he or she should act in his or her own self-interest, but would make no claims about what anyone else ought to do".
Agreed, but he still couldn't criticise cannibals who wanted to eat some liver with fava beans and a nice chianti.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
