• GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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      5 days ago

      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.

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          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.

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              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.

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                  Google that, and let me know what it says. Also, I didn’t say they should, I said they do. You could as easily ask why some people engage in criminal activity or abusive behavior, and probably get the same answers.

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                    It’s not a scientific fact. That’s why I ask why you believe it. Why do some people only respond to whopping?