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RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral?
June 13, 2016 at 2:33 pm
(June 13, 2016 at 2:08 pm)robvalue Wrote: Well, better is again entirely subjective. It's often not better from the point of view of the well-being of society at large. But they have made no choice to be this way.
In fact I take it fully into account. I don't expect the same behaviour from a psychopath as I would from a normal person. Obviously anyone who is killing people needs to be removed from society, but I don't hold a psychopath morally accountable. They have no moral, in extreme cases. They are amoral.
Psychopathology exists on a sliding scale. I expect the behaviors/morals to parallel their disease state.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral?
June 14, 2016 at 12:58 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2016 at 1:01 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Many are under the impression that it doesn't need any fitting - even as they cram that heifer into a shoe two sizes too small.
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RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral?
June 14, 2016 at 1:43 am
Yeah...
It is painful to me watching someone trying to contort reality and twist words to try and make the two converge.
