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Originally Posted by Don Ro
A comment from the above article:
chanceymcgerk: 4 hours ago (Edited)
"The final "pearl of wisdom" from this definite contender for the 2018 Darwin Award...
“I don’t buy it. Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own—it’s easier to dismiss an opinion as abhorrent than strive to understand it. Badness exists, sure, but even that’s quite rare. By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind. No greater revelation has come from our journey than this.”
HILARIOUS - PRICELESS"
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If you don't believe in universal moral standards then there is truth to this.
If a village believes in slavery and cannibalism, and the neighboring village believes the same, and all surrounding villages; then the practice of taking their neighbors for slaves or food would not seem evil. It would be normal.
It would seem to me that there are certain lines of harm that
should be universal. Then there are lines that are better drawn by "nation states" to suite their situation.
In Tokyo with a population greater than many of the U.S. greatest cities combined, waste of something that could be recycled is sin.