Tuesday, August 7, 2018

give us a handout

I had to call it something.

  • "He who interferes in what does not concern him finds what does not please him" from the Muslim culture, but there needs to be limits. If we are aiming at world government, then there must be uniformity... yet culture, ethic, morals, values are adaptive and subjective. There is nothing physically wrong with eating horse and dogs, or humans for that mater. Killing, on the other hand is wrong for it is violence against others and will be reciprocated.   
  • Mind your own business. This must be one of the collateral of ethics. It is necessary in a diverse population, and yet it is not right either. We need to allow the idiots to be idiots, but if the idiots are doing harm to others, we should not permit it either. But what is harm? Teaching children to follow a wrong belief system; Creationism, for example, or believing in witch craft or herbal medicine, holistic treatments for serious diseases. How about human driven climate change deniers. An idiot is an idiot, and should we make efforts to correct them or just leave them to do as they please. 
  • Mind the greater good. This must also be a collateral issue, especially in earth over population control, but the religions are pushing population growth. The greater good is to reduce population to some manageable level, and we may already go over the turning point in climate warming, a nuclear winter may fix the problem, or a major volcanic eruption, or an asteroid. Slow heat and crop failures may be the way we go, or the next extinction event goes. Complete of partial, it does not matter much. 
  • A statement of belief will be necessary. There are no gods, no afterlife, no supernatural. Physics dictates the reality. On a conceptual level, all must be consistent with the physical facts that exist. If it is not consistent with the physical facts, it is likely not true. Reality rules. But people and the relationship between people is beyond my understanding.

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