My Atheist Friends, Help Me Understand
I read posts here that call different things, "harmful to humanity." Others call something, "good" or "bad" or "evil."
A very simple question, who gets to decide the definition of "harmful to humanity" and what is there critieria? The same for "good," "bad," and "evil?" These are not material terms. If everything is material isn't there just "is" and not these moral declarations if one is being thoroughly atheist?
Help me understand your position so I am fair and honest about the views. Thanks.
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@Blaine Leavitt
@Unseen "There really is no multicolored arc out there where the rainbow appears to be." Without photons and water molecules no rainbows. I would think rainbows are real. Grasshopper confused!!
You certainly must be. "Everything is real once properly categorized. A rainbow belongs in the category "Illusions."
Jun 18, 2012
onyango makagutu
good or bad are concepts that are not absolute but are transient. they change with time. pushed farther, good can be seen as the way of the powerful, it was good to own a slave and bad to have inter racial marriages. but these two things have changed and so all other standards of good abd bad will change with time.
evil exists only if you include religion in the picture.
who decides whats harmful to humanity- anything that is in the long run detrimental to the survival of the species at large or a specific community is harmful. we do not need a council to decide this.
Jun 19, 2012
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@Blaine Leavitt
Thank you for that. As usual we always have exceptions, people that have Tritanopia, Protanopia and Deuteranopia. People who are completely color blind would see the rainbow in shades of gray – and perhaps they would see everything as either black, white, or a shade gray.
And if their vision was in the radio frequency end of the electromagnetic spectrum, they probably wouldn't even know what a rainbow is.
Jun 20, 2012