Compassionate implies intent as well as behavior. But intent can never be really known. If correct behavior is achieved by them fearing God, loving God, compassion, or the pragmatic understanding that their behavior is going to cause damage to society and make their lives uncomfortable is pretty hard to judge from the outside, so I’ll focus on the behavior. I’d prefer the more altruistic reasons, but I have only poor tools to make that assessment.
There’s 8 billion people in this world and I can only impact a few of them. Whopping them isn’t a tool I prefer or tend to use, but I also recognize that it’s the only tool some on the side of behaving decently have or some people respond to.
Sure, but you aren’t going to convince selfish people with that argument.
You know, the ones who need to be convinced?
They are the ones that need some sense whopped into them.
That’s like needing god to be good.
The pragmatic part of me doesn’t care how they get to the correct outcome. There are plenty of people who don’t, with or without god.
Do you get compassionate people if you whop them?
Compassionate implies intent as well as behavior. But intent can never be really known. If correct behavior is achieved by them fearing God, loving God, compassion, or the pragmatic understanding that their behavior is going to cause damage to society and make their lives uncomfortable is pretty hard to judge from the outside, so I’ll focus on the behavior. I’d prefer the more altruistic reasons, but I have only poor tools to make that assessment.
You could also improve your tooling.
There’s 8 billion people in this world and I can only impact a few of them. Whopping them isn’t a tool I prefer or tend to use, but I also recognize that it’s the only tool some on the side of behaving decently have or some people respond to.
Why should some people only respond to whopping?