Posted: Dec 10, 2016 8:34 am
SafeAsMilk wrote:If it's just a person by themselves, what does good even mean?
Is it supposed to mean anything for lots of people at once? No, they just argue about what it means. Some bright bulb will always come along and say that there's value purely in having the argument, pretty much right after somebody complains that they're being 'attacked' for expressing an opinion. Somebody else will come along and pretend that 'evolutionary psychology' is science and not sexed-up philosophy or stick the word 'cognitive' in front of the word 'science', fait accompli. The gaussian is your friend, but you have to measure something, first.
No, I agree. People are entitled to express their opinions about what they think 'good' and 'bad' mean, and everyone else should just shut up, or at least not interrupt them while they're expounding. What kind of conversation is that? It's the kind of conversation that takes place in internet forums where people discuss moral philosophy because some idiotic theist apologist claims we need god in order to be good.
The real evidence that theology is bad is the way some people take years to get over it after they finally find out it's empty. Those who aren't over it yet just desperately try to put the hooks back in. What a sad, fucking mess, the absurdity of the human condition, and we fucking love it.