SmokeAndMirrors
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Let's forget relativism for a minute here, and I'll just let you have the ball and assume there is some kind of objective morality to all things.
Tell me something.
Is the sociopath, with his mangled neurology, baseline emotion of depression, lack of any joy in life, and inability to understand humanity really purely evil when you consider all those things, none of which he can control?
Is the soup kitchen volunteer worker, who only knows what they are doing is good because it feels good to do it, really purely altruistic when they're essentially only doing it to make themselves happy?
Name me one thing in this world that is absolutely good, or absolutely evil, beyond any debate. Because I can't think of anything.
Life is not simple. People are not simple. Motivation is not simple. All these things are really rather gray.
I understand the reason people are always trying to boil life down to the simplicity of a children's book, but you miss a lot of meaningful things for doing so. You miss out on a lot of understanding and honesty and personal growth when you cut away all of the complexity from life.
Tell me something.
Is the sociopath, with his mangled neurology, baseline emotion of depression, lack of any joy in life, and inability to understand humanity really purely evil when you consider all those things, none of which he can control?
Is the soup kitchen volunteer worker, who only knows what they are doing is good because it feels good to do it, really purely altruistic when they're essentially only doing it to make themselves happy?
Name me one thing in this world that is absolutely good, or absolutely evil, beyond any debate. Because I can't think of anything.
Life is not simple. People are not simple. Motivation is not simple. All these things are really rather gray.
I understand the reason people are always trying to boil life down to the simplicity of a children's book, but you miss a lot of meaningful things for doing so. You miss out on a lot of understanding and honesty and personal growth when you cut away all of the complexity from life.
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