(October 11, 2018 at 1:24 pm)Drich Wrote:(October 11, 2018 at 2:31 am)Mathilda Wrote: That was my conclusion as well. He doesn't even understand the concept of empathy although of course he thinks that he does.
He'll probably now reply to me and / or you and demonstrate this to everyone. Either by arguing why it isn't needed or isn't relevant, or claiming that something else is empathy.
or that you misdiagnosed empathy as a choice not to side or judge people 'good' or award them special dispensation because of a perceived victim status. I treat everyone with the same blot of sin stain Christ Himself treated people with.
As with the woman caught in adultery and thrown before Jesus and was asked to judge her either by the law of God or by roman rule Jesus (like I do) shows you your own sin and askes which of you is without sin just like he did with the pharisees when he wrote their sin on the ground.
Take slavery.
You demand me to declare slavery is always bad.
Problem it is not. in fact millions would starve and die without modern slavery feeding them. not only that modern city life would not be possible. without slavery both the very rich and the very poor would cease to exist.
I can not take your side because I am among that wealthiest 5% of the population of the world that would be gone if not for modern field hands/slaves. but then I point out so are you all.. but your self righteousness will not accept it simply because you renamed slaves migrant workers. or the plantation works hapens in central or south america and out of sight is out of mind.
For me it is far more evil to pretend there are no slaves and ignore the working conditions and the below living wage these people get paid, just so in my mind I can have peace. I would far rather own up to directly benefit from modern slavery than pretend I am something I am not. So I can not then make the same self righteous declaration that all slavery is bad because I see all that differs from modern slavery and 1700's slavery is the color of the field hand's skin, and the terms we use to describe these men. The living conditions are the same, the dependance on the plantation is the same the product is even the same. what is different? what we call these men. it is like changing the word baby to fetus and now because it is not a baby it is ok to kill it! if you don't think so stab a pregnant woman in the baby sack and see if it is not murder if she refers to it as her child, yet if she calls it a fetus then she can pay someone to kill that very same life with no legal consequence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eui_t8bO_s
So again.. I can not look at myself being the first generation in my mom's family born out of imperial japanese slavery (which was way worse than white on black slavery, as they were not bought but annex people who were a drain on the resources japan wanted for themselves so they had order to thin out the heard of anyone who could not work. I've got horror stories of family be mutilated if you like. ) Still can not call slavery itself bad or evil. As again I am a direct beneficiary of a slave society. So I reason it is the men who are in power who give slavery a evil slant or a good one.. but because I am not willing to turn my mind off and call all slavery bad without looking at the facts/truth I am without feeling, when in fact I am able to show what true tolerance is. I am who you pretend to be. and that is a picture of a forward thinking progressive man, which is so foreign to you, you misdiagnosis my reason and intent.
Truthfully we are all guilty of slavery to one degree or another, so check the bible and it does not out right condemn but rather sets rules to govern slavery by. It even call us to submit before God as a willing slave, which is why I would think a Satan run community would call slavery bad no matter what/not allow to discuss or think about it. because it kills any chance of you ever going before God.
Drich is so predictable.