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Heaven for Atheists? Better Read the Fine Print

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Usually refered to as anyways5/26/2013 3:33:36 am PDT

re: #144 Obdicut is an Obdislut apparently

That really doesn’t work, though, unless you’re a good moral being to begin with. If I’m a greedy son of a bitch who trusts no one, steals when he can, and thinks might makes right, doing to others as I’d have them do unto me would mean I’d cheat, lie, and backstab.

Likewise, if I was a holy-roller of the anti-gay type, I’d go around preaching to homosexuals that they’re damned sinners, because that’s what I want done to me.

Kant’s variation on the golden rule (imagine if everyone in the world took the same action as you, what would the result be?) is an improvement, but still insufficient.

We are speaking in the first person here, not what others would do.
I should do to others as I would have them do unto me.

A thief does not want you to steal from them.
A holy-roller does not want people telling him he’s going to hell (Westborough may be an exception here)
If you don’t want people to lie to you, then you don’t lie to them.