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15 years ago @ mobiFlip.de - HTC PC10100 - Wurde da... · 0 replies · +2 points
15 years ago @ Just Another iPhone Blog - So the Guy in Charge o... · 0 replies · +1 points
16 years ago @ The Freethinker - Debbie Purdy wins land... · 0 replies · +1 points
Advances of humanity (in medicine, science) require new ethics. Life above all can't be the solution if medicine has the capability of making you suffer for decades without curing you.
The book is old. Write a new one.
16 years ago @ The Freethinker - Vandalised Bible upset... · 0 replies · +2 points
Good stuff. I would have written: "Bad motto." under Ecclesiastes 1:18. http://bible.cc/ecclesiastes/1-18.htm
Though the pope is right in that the same thing happening to the Koran would probably have had the government intervene. Sad.
16 years ago @ The Freethinker - Prayer? It’s lik... · 0 replies · +1 points
It is true however that many believers who become seriously ill suddenly accept all kinds of treatments, some of which might even be considered idolatry by their fellow believers.
16 years ago @ The Freethinker - Prayer? It’s lik... · 0 replies · +1 points
It is always the kids who suffer.
16 years ago @ Atheist Revolution - This is Christian Mora... · 0 replies · 0 points
For example, some pacifist Buddhist monks value all animal life, even insects. Now let's say science finds that insects are unable to feel pain, but fish (even previously though otherwise) aren't. That would change the ethics of killing fish vs. killing insects. The same goes for human embryos in a certain stage. It is nonsense to talk about "killing a human life" when it's unable to feel pain, without a conscious mind and at the developmental stage of a baby shrimp. Particularly if that life is valued greater than it's future potential mother's potential plight.
I'm sorry that I was very confusing in using the term "science's morals", it's an abomination and I'll never do it again. Don't know what came over me. :)
16 years ago @ Deep Thoughts - In my face every day · 1 reply · +1 points
http://somestepsahead.blogspot.com/2009/07/self-h...
Basically, I think that it's important to know where your rage or annoyance is coming from to develop an individual coping strategy. :) The long answer in my blog post.
Thank you mojoey for the inspiration! :)
16 years ago @ Atheist Revolution - This is Christian Mora... · 1 reply · 0 points
We might need to learn to kill, but if we were hungry cavemen, that would be a major part of our society. A pacifist caveman might deserve the death penalty.
Religion as part of a culture that invented farming, written laws and religion, was in fact moral progress. It was also progress that was due to knowledge and science (agriculture).
Nowadays, science's morals are both more reasonable and more strict. I.e. who can think of himself as a mammal and not be (at least a bit) conflicted by eating meat? By animal testing? Of course, we face reality (including the part that says eating meat is healthy). But christian fundamentalists, as lords of the earth, need not reflect critically on that.
Basically, it was a good idea once, but we should move on.
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