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Jackie Blue:
Well, yeah. My point was just that, sadly, a lot of people treat others like shit and improve their lives by doing so, and they have a right to make their soulless, Moloch-worshipping argument that "survival of the fittest" necessitates stepping on other people.
This is why societal evolution is the most important thing now, not evolution of the human animal per se.
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 26 Jan 2008, 18:51 ---I dunno if I'd say that's logically unimpeachable. "Greed works" depends on whether or not someone intends jail to be their ultimate destination. See: Enron, Bre-X, Conrad Black, Martha Stewart...
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Course, those are the ones that got caught. Who knows how many people got away with it?
KvP:
Egoist capitalism, as most popularly embodied by Ayn Rand, is much less logically sound than the Golden Rule, and is incredibly marginal amongst academics, if relatively popular amongst amateur "enthusiasts" and political conservatives.
Jackie Blue:
The point being that the most logically sound way of acting is almost never the way in which people actually conduct their lives.
I didn't say any argument against the Golden Rule was strong, just that it exists.
De_El:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 26 Jan 2008, 12:03 ---To me, "God" is the sum of humanity's collective unconscious, independant of space and time, and briefly glimpsed while in trances, in sleep, in meditation, or on certain powerful psychoactives.
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I'm cool with this, but I don't see the point in calling it "God." Being 17, my beliefs on such matters are in a pretty consistent state of flux. At the moment, I can accept something like a god provided we don't insist that it's sentient.
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