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Subject: You have no idea which view is correct. Do not mistake correlation for evidence. Bigger theories and ideas than evolution that have been held far longer have been overwhelmingly discredited before.
Author: Roberdin	[ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ] Date Posted: 16:51:45 11/21/04 Sun In reply to: Ian (Australia) 's message, "Depends on what you mean by "educated", I guess" on 15:06:45 11/21/04 Sun [ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ]

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 20:48:35 11/21/04 Sun

I believe that blowing people up, because they do not believe what I believe, is wrong. This is as close to a moral absolute as I get. I have no idea which religion or principle is 'right', and as a concomitant necessity I can not accept that one belief justifies the extermination of someone who holds another belief.

The conclusion which I draw from this is not that we shouldn't believe anything, but that we shouldn't blow people up. And we can only reconcile belief and perceived unbelief if we foster a culture in which no one cares what anyone else believes. When I meet people and find out that they are Muslims or Christians or Socialists or vegetarians or people who think that Louis Vuitton is cool, or any of the other beliefs which are a complete antithesis to everything which I believe to be true: I just don't care. Off you go and don't have an abortion; worship the image of an early-Roman execution device because some politically mischievous carpenter was nailed to one; refuse to speak to your children if you find out that they're gay... just so long as you don't expect me to do any of these things, you have my blessing, or, rather, my indifference. That is my side of the social contract: the other side is that the people who hate abortions/common sense/homosexuality treat my pro-choice/Christo-sceptic/gay-tolerant beliefs with the indifference (and ergo tolerance) with which I treat their beliefs.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

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Author: Roberdin [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 21:06:02 11/21/04 Sun Do not presume your view is accurate and do not insult other the views of others. It's essentially in agreement with you. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]