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To: Darkwolf377

My off-the cuff definition of ‘misbehavior’ would run as follows: acting either with reckless disregard or with malice aforethought to harm others who have done no harm to you. A full account of why such behavior is not reasonable in the universe as we currently understand it would not be a quick write. Maybe another time. Note, though, that if someone rejects rationality as a criterion for judging conduct, the conversation is at an end anyway and it’s probably wise to make sure your gun is loaded when you’re dealing with that person.


13 posted on 11/24/2008 1:40:47 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored
Note, though, that if someone rejects rationality as a criterion for judging conduct, the conversation is at an end anyway

Agreed, and religion isn't about rationality.

16 posted on 11/24/2008 1:49:10 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (1-22-13)
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To: snarks_when_bored

“A full account of why such behavior is not reasonable in the universe as we currently understand it would not be a quick write. Maybe another time. Note, though, that if someone rejects rationality as a criterion for judging conduct, the conversation is at an end anyway and it?s probably wise to make sure your gun is loaded when you?re dealing with that person”

In other words, you cannot offer a credible (reasonable) definition of good behavior and you’re going to threaten anyone who asks for one with a gun.

I’m glad I own guns too.


27 posted on 11/24/2008 3:33:58 AM PST by Brouhaha
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To: snarks_when_bored
My off-the cuff definition of ‘misbehavior’ would run as follows: acting either with reckless disregard or with malice aforethought to harm others who have done no harm to you. A full account of why such behavior is not reasonable in the universe as we currently understand it would not be a quick write.

Here is a jump start of a thousand words...


38 posted on 11/24/2008 4:41:21 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: snarks_when_bored
A full account of why such behavior is not reasonable in the universe as we currently understand it would not be a quick write.

Here's a quick "write"; evil.

Live backwards; against the God that made you; evil.

43 posted on 11/24/2008 5:14:29 AM PST by Pietro
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To: snarks_when_bored

>>Note, though, that if someone rejects rationality as a criterion for judging conduct...<<

To who’s rationality are you referring. Saddam thought he was rational. Hitler thought he was rational. If there is no deity you have the luxury of defining your own rationality and consensus doesn’t count. After all, consensus would be merely a result of evolution, which was accidental.

Maybe cancer is more valuable than people and we should nurture it rather than kill it. I mean, we got lots of people, and we seem to make all we want...


127 posted on 11/24/2008 12:33:08 PM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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