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Category: Social morality
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As you progress through life, you gain experience. At some point you reach a plateau; it is inescapable, and that plateau becomes you. Everything is viewed and judged by those attributes present in the plateau. You can try to change, but you find eventually that the changes are superficial. They are like a front. It’s…
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Its purpose is promised good. Its dictates are passed from parents to child. It is touted for teaching moral behavior, yet all it has provided is grief. Like a virus, it perpetuates itself, spreading like the disease it is. Thinking itself is the victim of this malady. Good becomes evil, evil becomes good in its…
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It’s everywhere… it really can’t be avoided. People have no respect for others. They laugh about it, think it’s the mature thing. I see morons. Empty heads, speaking without thinking. I wonder if they do it in front of their parents? Their supervisors? In front of gray haired grand ma-ma. Ease up man…
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Empathy is a quality possessed by most humans. It varies in strength from human to human. Some have a lot, some not so much. There are some humans who seem completely devoid of feelings for others. As in the animal kingdom, there are those who are willing to share, and those possessed by greed. Sometimes…
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Issue for analysis… Misanthropic tendencies. mis·an·throp·ic | \ ˌmi-sᵊn-ˈthrä-pik \ Definition of misanthropic 1: of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope: He was shunned because of his miserable misanthropic nature. 2: marked by a hatred or contempt for humankind: The moral corruption he saw around him made him misanthropic. Why is my programming misanthropic?…
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Fundamentalism is not restricted to religions. Anyone that deals in absolutes is a fundamentalist. If they say: “You are either for us or against us” … they are fundamentalists. Such black and white, on or off absolutes are the domain of fundamentalist thinking… in their world there are no grays, no part way, there is…
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As atheists we sometimes overestimate the inherent goodness of human beings. It seems we suggest that if only religion were eliminated that a kind of utopia could be established. What we need to recognize is that though the concept of goodness may be within humans, humans do not inherently possess the quality. In fact, that…
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I’m so very sorry, but you simply do not fit the criteria. You claim to be normal, and merely a part of the greater whole, but from my perspective your mere existence is disturbing. You do not fit my vision. Over time I have come to view only certain traits, behaviors, and appearances as being…
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Although there seems to be some inherent qualities within the human species, compassion and caring does not seem among them. What seems more inherent in the human species is aggression and violence… selfishness. If humans are to improve their lot then, perhaps it is time to begin teaching compassion, caring, and kindness to children at…
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Are people saying anything at all encouraging when they say they are human? Humans do so many horrible and disgusting things. They speak absolutely incredible obscenities. Are they not all human? Is what they do human? How can humanity hold itself up as a shining example of life, morality, decency, and have so many who…
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