If God sent your child to Hell.

[Faith No More]

That's a popular loophole.  The "I only dehumanize people who dehumanize people" argument.  If you only treat people nice who you decide to treat nice, then people aren't deserving of being treated well based on being a fellow human.  It's people who qualify under your set of rules.  

Of course, you don't view this as being a selfish prick, because it's their fault they aren't meeting your standards of behavior.  How dare they, quite honestly.  It's really kind of neat how we are able to form these crazy rationalizations to make ourselves turn out to be the good guys.

Oh, wow. I lost track of this thread.

The thing is, I'm sure you actually believe in the same principle, but you just draw the line in a different place.  If someone was trying to murder you, would you stick to the golden rule, or would you do what was necessary to survive?  I believe that people should only be given the benefit of the doubt to be treated fairly, but they can forfeit that right with their own behavior.  I  don't buy into the impractical and naive notion that the golden rule applies at all times.  I believe you reap what you sow. Sure, I make my own value judgements about what is and isn't acceptable, just like you would if someone tried to murder you.  The logical consequences of such passiveness is to allow everyone to walk all over you.

Lol at trying to make myself out as the good guy.  Apparently, you know jackshit about me.  It's more like life is too rough and short to put up with other people's bullshit.

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You only have to impress yourself and if you're trying to justify yourself to others as you've tried unsuccessfully to do with me, you have failed at impressing yourself.

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And I'd like to thank you for demonstrating that the 'best' Atheism has to offer, on a good day, is a cherry picker who rather than have a discussion, voices his own confirmation bias.

And I'm sure praying for cancer is the best theism has to offer?