oilman said:
Unfortunately BAS, from your reply to my earlier post I now understand you to be a zealot. This is as dangerous as a lynch mob in that you have adopted an unthinking position.
No - it is a position that I have arrived at as a result of thinking. I have thought about it, and decided that there is a moral imperative to not use violence as a way to regulate society.
You claim morality, this is only subjective.
All views are subjective. All opinions are subjective.
You say we are supposed to be superior..............
This is exactly what is preached by religons of many descriptions and the reason why it was considered acceptable to destroy everything else on earth.
That's an incredibly twisted way to demonstrate superiority. I said we are, or are supposed to be, superior in the context of morality, or of civilised behaviour if you prefer. It is not the act of a person with superior standards of civilised behaviour to destroy everything else on earth.
Stop fooling yourself, humans are demonstrably no more civilised than chimpanzees. This is not an insult to either species, it is a fact.
Then it's a shameful one. We have a much superior intellect. We have a much superior ability for reasoning and discernment and discrimination in our conscious behaviour. We ought to be more civilised. One of the things that holds us back is attitudes like those of David, Julie & Slogger, who want to regulate the behaviour of those that they don't like by hitting them with hammers or burning or killing them.
There really is no point in your responding to any post on this subject as you have no intention of respecting anybody's point of view if it is different from yours.
There a views and there are views. I can quite happily respect a different POV on a great many issues.
But when it comes to saying that the state should torture, maim and kill people, or that private citizens should be allowed to do it if they disapprove of what another person has done then no, I do not have any respect for that view, or any respect for the person that holds it.
I could go on, but there is no point. I don't support lynch mobs nor do I think capital punishment is acceptable, but there are plenty of people society could do without, and when life gets hard, which will be in not very many years you will see civilised behaviour vanish before your eyes. Not nice but life is pretty brutal.
And if people like David, Julie and Slogger prevail, would it be more, or less, brutal?
There is no absolute anything just because society says so
We are talking about the principles on which a society is based. I said that if a society willed it then there can be absolutes.
and a religous faith does not qualify for an absolute
It does to people in the faith.
otherwise the world was created and populated in six days.
Not sure I follow that...