To: Blackacre
Rules protecting life are a neccesity for any functional society.
And what is the intrinsic value of a functional society? You function for a few million years and then you cease to exist.
If a mad man (even the word "mad" is now relative with Dawkin's philosophy) wants to destroy the world with nukes, I see nothing that is intrinsically "evil" in what he wants to do.
Everything is simply a matter of preference if we subscribe to atheism.
To: SeekAndFind
And what is the intrinsic value of a functional society? That's a silly question. Most people prefer to not live in a society where barbarians roam the hills and the only law is who has the most weapons.
If a mad man (even the word "mad" is now relative with Dawkin's philosophy) wants to destroy the world with nukes, I see nothing that is intrinsically "evil" in what he wants to do.
Perhaps. But that doesn't mean others won't try to stop him, seeing as the rest of us don't want to die.
To: SeekAndFind
“If a mad man (even the word “mad” is now relative with Dawkin’s philosophy) wants to destroy the world with nukes, I see nothing that is intrinsically “evil” in what he wants to do.”
Any attempt to destroy the world is both irrational and evil.
49 posted on
07/02/2009 10:59:49 AM PDT by
OldNavyVet
(The sense of evil lies in the irrational.)
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