Thread: What's a sin?
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Old 05-15-2007, 06:11 PM   #5 (permalink)
Sunnybayes
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Be careful of what you mean by "real"

The actions are real. It just depends on how you choose to interpret those actions.

And for the survival of everyone, in the context of the global society since we cannot escape that context, then I'd say defiantly yes there are sins, sin as defined as defined as things that you should not do and things you should do if you want to survive and exists for the "greater good", or moreover if you want the global society to live "happily". But that you can defiantly justify any action as "good" if you are not aware or unable to be aware enough (because noone has pushed you to change your subconcious mental habits, because they wont change on their alone unless you become concious of them...) to take in consideration your actions at a greater level and context, or are "selfish" (on different degrees and levels) and only take in consideration or consider a context that is a subset of the global society system.

Yet another example, if you do what is "good" for you company might be in fact be a "sin" against the "global society system"

And another thought, perhaps that system should include the biosphere of the earth as well..., after all that is what supports the global society system... so then an action that is in fact good in one subset of the global society system, such as keeping the lights on at night to protect against burgulars because you are considering your actions in the context of the neighborhood system, is in fact evil against the global society system on one level because it waste resources, so then it becomes quite an act of knowing how to minimize the "evilness"....

And I think that is where information theory comes in...

Also though it becomes a choice of what system you want to maximize goodness for.... well there's something to think about.

But also, its really almost impossible to know how to interpret all your actions as good or evil because after all it is a complex system and you can't see the consequences of everything and that if there is no way to get more information about it then it is quite pointless to worry if you are "sinning" or not... though you might consider it a "sin" if you conciously choose to not seek out information and to be ignorant of how your actions influence things... but since curiosity is built into us then you'd want to do this anyway.
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