You are right, Jerry, I can only assume from your choice of words, I intend no offense.
The native amerikan tradition express the sanctity of all life, you chose the christian ‘animals have no souls’, this line of logic could only come into being had it been told to you by some authority you accept as valid, when clearly these things are alive, you wish to dismiss them as irrelevant, another learned behavior.
The objectivity of this outline is absolute, everything you cause affects others in some way, this either results in an improvement in their existence, or a detraction.
There are no personalities, there is only the absolute good, the absolute evil, and the place that you occupy somewhere in between.
It doesn’t matter if you accept this as a valid theory, or not, it goes on regardless.
I just feel obligated to point out that the major religions have been allowed to grow as large as they have because the have sanction of those who use violence to get their way. It isn’t because their brand of hoops gets you into heaven any faster, it’s because their sermons fall in line with the powermonger’s scheme. Religion opiates the masses, it keeps them pondering impossible/irrelevant trivia. It gives them something to argue about.
This precludes them from the posistion of ‘good’ when one assumes that each individual wants full control of their own lives, to be free of violence, and threats of violence.
Not many folks get the connection, how long do you think christianity would have lasted if Jesus had said taxation is robbery?
Wake up to the reality,…maybe you like having others do your thinking for you, ask the millions of germans what that will get you. Even when you surrender your thoughts to another to think for you, you are still on the hook for what you cause.
Uccisore, I can’t determine right from wrong for anyone but myself, nor can you.
I have found through years of sad living that if it’s wrong for you to do it to me, it’s wrong for me to do it to you. A very simple concept that is hidden from most folks. It’s fine to 'hang ‘em high’, until they come for you.
Would somebody please explain the blasphemy of value judgements?
One knows ‘right’ from ‘wrong’ in their lives because ‘wrong’ choices lower survival values. If you chose to violate the ‘rights’ of others, bad things will happen to you, it’s not real complex. If you don’t like how your life is treating you, make better choices.
If life was as simple as for you to know every outcome in advance, there wouldn’t be much challenge to it.
Life is a test of who you are over the course of your lifetime, the good and the bad add up to your sum, what happens next is anybody’s guess.
Thanks to all of you for taking the time.
I trust I can get some positive remarks as well?