- 16 Mar 2021 04:41
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Sure, people don't really want to arbitrarily murder others because they do not want to be murdered. We do experience empathy for others.
It's very easy to say that a man just walking over to a helpless mother & child he came across in a jungle clearing, tormenting and executing them is quite a wrong thing. It strikes us as unnecessary, tyrannical, cruel; it's like taking a perfectly cooked piece of steak and then spiking it into the mud for no reason. Who'd do that?! I wanted to eat that steak!
And the mind is even more disgusted because one understands that people have worth; dogs have worth. Everyone is greatly bothered when they hear about a man beating a horse to death -- great literature is inspired by this.
But what amount of murders are sadistic & pointless like this?
Most killings throughout history are men competing for finite resources.
It is wrong for yuo to kill me -- we are both married men with decent jobs and no reason to fight... It'd be a waste; it would be like just up & killing a pleasant, kindly dog because you just don't like dogs.
But if I drunk-drove over your best friend's kid & got off Scot-free because I had a good lawyer, and you saw me, drunk as a skunk, getting into a car each Friday night, living life to the fullest... what's the big taboo for your friend to not kill me?
What cosmic justice is served by sparing my life?
What cosmic justice is served by rival highland tribes not bashing each other's brains in at dawn?
There was an ineresting case in 2020 -- a poor ne'er do well with a criminal record who worked at a hotel killed another man who was staying there, and threw him in the river. When they caught him he said something like,
"Nothing to investigate, folks -- just one scumbag killing another scumbag. Put me in jail and be done with it."
August 8th, 2019
Godstud wrote:@Verv Most people do not follow the rules because of fear of retribution, but because they see it as being right, and being conducive to a productive society. Most people only break laws that are dumb, and those tend to be minor and almost insignificant ones. Fear has nothing to do with this.
I don't NOT kill someone because of fear of retribution, but because it's wrong, and I don't need a Bible nor faith to tell me this.
Claiming there is God because you say so, means nothing. It actually diminishes your argument by calling upon a potentially non-existent spiritual being as your claim for evidence.
Talking about the Qanon people as an example of free will, is tantamount to donning a tin-foil hat, and howling at the moon.
Sure, people don't really want to arbitrarily murder others because they do not want to be murdered. We do experience empathy for others.
It's very easy to say that a man just walking over to a helpless mother & child he came across in a jungle clearing, tormenting and executing them is quite a wrong thing. It strikes us as unnecessary, tyrannical, cruel; it's like taking a perfectly cooked piece of steak and then spiking it into the mud for no reason. Who'd do that?! I wanted to eat that steak!
And the mind is even more disgusted because one understands that people have worth; dogs have worth. Everyone is greatly bothered when they hear about a man beating a horse to death -- great literature is inspired by this.
But what amount of murders are sadistic & pointless like this?
Most killings throughout history are men competing for finite resources.
It is wrong for yuo to kill me -- we are both married men with decent jobs and no reason to fight... It'd be a waste; it would be like just up & killing a pleasant, kindly dog because you just don't like dogs.
But if I drunk-drove over your best friend's kid & got off Scot-free because I had a good lawyer, and you saw me, drunk as a skunk, getting into a car each Friday night, living life to the fullest... what's the big taboo for your friend to not kill me?
What cosmic justice is served by sparing my life?
What cosmic justice is served by rival highland tribes not bashing each other's brains in at dawn?
There was an ineresting case in 2020 -- a poor ne'er do well with a criminal record who worked at a hotel killed another man who was staying there, and threw him in the river. When they caught him he said something like,
"Nothing to investigate, folks -- just one scumbag killing another scumbag. Put me in jail and be done with it."
August 8th, 2019