Imagine asking for a source on a philosophical argument lmao
"Yeah, no, Descartes, I'll read it when it's peer reviewed. Yes in LaTeX please"
theblips
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It's not that deep:
1- In the case of natural evils: C. God causes them, but they are morally neutral from the spiritual perspective. If what matters is salvation and glory to God it doesn't change anything if you died by tornado or by anything else, and inevitable death might even be a net positive individually and to others (Ind: the person might repent about something, social: seeing the frailness of life leads to less self love, while increasing compassion)
2- In the case of human caused evils: B with an asterisk. Given that He has imposed upon Himself the restriction of respecting free will, He won't stop people from doing evil deeds, even though He wants them to do good and He can make them do it. Why God chooses to do it like this is a mistery and doesn't really matter, but it seems to be because He wants people to freely choose to worship Him.
It's funny how they creep up on us, right? São Paulo also just casually advertised locking some drug kingpin up using mass surveillance and face recognition this year. And nobody seems to care
True but a downvote magnet on Lemmy. But I would dispute the "benefit" part... What exactly is the benefit in not having to learn anything? Why would I even want to exist if not to be good at something and create something? It just seems like we're building towards stuff that's better than us at doing what WE want to do as a society. Thinking about chess here: why would I care about the best Stockfish moves in every line of my favorite opening if no one will ever be able to explain them?
Honestly, just erase all graded homework, papers included. All of it. It wasn't even good at anything to begin with and we would just cheat off each other, but now it's even worse.
I need to move to Germany or Switzerland so bad. Snuff is just on a different level in that part of the world... A little off topic: Are you aware if Bernard availability in Germany and the rest of the world will change with the McChrystal's buyout?
Reading comprehension
How? I need this
Hey, I got a late diagnosis too, at 22 more or less. Depending on where you live the official diagnosis can get you some pretty big benefits, I for once have never again paid for public transportation since I got mine
That's true! These would be welcome contributions to the thread, too. Like "trains, but especially the seats and the history of train sitting layouts" would be so cool
They also generally come from a place of justified distrust of modern day mass (and sometimes even specialized) media, which makes it harder to reason with them.
Much of the problem is the false assumption that their dumb internet forums and influencers aren't being manipulative as well, by different and more ruthless actors... Yeah, dude, the government does shady stuff and manipulates people and narratives, but Andrew Tate telling you to cheat on your wife while exposing your kids to polio isn't better is it?
lmao this is my favorite so far. May you elaborate on why you find this so interesting?