09-10-2008, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Spartan Why? Skeptics won't break down in tears and go on a murderous rampage just because they are proved wrong you know. I consider it more immoral to simply discriminate against the less gullible.
Also, you talk about free will as if everone has absolute freedom over their beliefs. I disagree. Choices are determined by our beliefs and desires, but the causal chain doesn't stop there. Our beliefs and desires are caused by our past experiences and biological make-up. Hence, we have free will, but only in the sense that we could have done otherwise if our biological make-up and past experiences, and hence beliefs and desires had been different.
Furthermore, it is impossible that anything can be attributed meaning outside of the context of our language. Humans exist, they invent language and words like good and bad, then they ascribe the definition of those words to other things in existence. 'Existence precedes essence'. Thus without humans there would be no good or bad. Hence any absolute Karmic meaning of the words good and bad, as you allude to, is impossible. | Why was this user banned? Please give truth.
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