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Originally Posted by timothydrake  Exhibit A. |
When you say "The winning side is almost always the good guys by force of perspective or by majority." - I think you're absolutely right when it comes to war for example. I don't think any of this is a 'secret' either - If you read the autobiography of Chuck Yeager for example you'll read all about American heroes strafing civilians just because they could. Oh, and, well, Hiroshima.
But - I don't think you can apply "The winning side is almost always the good guys by force of perspective or by majority" to everything . You cannot say that someone saving someone else's life is good - just because society said so. You cannot say the rape of a child is bad - just because 'they' decided it was bad, or that we were somehow conditionned to beleive it was bad.
If you really beleive that a rape is neither good or bad, and that it's only considered bad because our society said so, well, I'm a bit worried about you now
Oh and by the way I'm not sure why the author got this fixation on Christianity. It feels very strange that someone who appears to be intelligent would someone go "ah-ah! guess what I found out! Crusaders weren't good after all! We were all manipulated by our sunday school teachers!" It's just bizarre - because everyone today, including school children, are all perfectly aware that Christianity has been the source of immense misery and atrocities. It's not a secret.
That the line between good and bad is often blurred isn't a secret either - but then again the author seems to believe that "ANYONE" who see a prisonner in an orange jumpsuit is automatically a monster who deserves no right. So the author doesn't 'do' subtle.
What's next - News at 11! Politicians don't necessarily have our best interests at heart? Democracy does not always reflect the popular opinion? LOL. Groundbreaking stuff.
My two cents only of course.