--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Pensinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 10:05 PM
> Subject: Re: No conflicts between selfishness and morality?
> humans
> > (most?) fall back upon these instincts when their life is threatened.
> >
> > Why does he say "My God, those people will die if I don't do something,
> > I better act."? Would the stories he's been told from youth about the
> > good guy saving lives - the television shows, the movies, the real life
> > stories on the news at least be a factor? We're taught, hell, _trained_
> > that to be the hero is the right thing to do and has its rewards.
>
> Well I certainly wasn't. I was taught to do the right thing because it was
> right. I was also taught that there was often a very stiff penalty for
> doing the right thing, but one should do it anyways.
>
> The point I was making was that people do the right thing because they
> believe in right and wrong. It doesn't have to be faith in God, but it is
> still faith based. By pointing out that these principals are just lies and
> myths, one is undercutting the community.
>
Even if one points out that some story or another is a lie or myth, does not
effect the reality of right and wrong.
If you throw away the crutch of the myths and lies and are left with nothing
but the hard reality right is still right and wrong is still wrong. The
strength in that is far grater than any strength on can recieve from blind
faith. Not only that, but it is infaliable, where as faith is not.
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