Okay, I'm having a little trouble with the whole concept of right and wrong. Humans are the only animals capable of rational thought, yes? And the rest of the animal kingdom lives to survive, yes? And to have some sort of structure in this society of ours filled with other people capable of rational thought, we need to have some sort of thing telling us what is allowed and what is not, so we can keep everyone happy. Disregard the fact that nobody is going to be completely happy with anything. I mean, murderous motherfuckers are obviously not going to be happy if they're not allowed to commit murder, right?
Now, religion has been a major thing, and traditions and culture, based on religion. What if humans lived lives wherein the whole concept of religion had been completely obliterated, and what governed us would only be the rules of science? Science is all facts, you don't bring morals and ethics into science.
So what rules would we live by - what would be right, and what would be wrong? Would things even be different from how they are now (considering that religion could just be a bunch of rules that some distinctly unsupernatural entities decided were great, and preached about under the pretence that they were, in fact, decreed by some magical, supreme being)?
We'd still be threatened by anything different, for one - glitches in the system must be removed, after all. Perhaps, and I do personally think this would be true, we'd be more open minded because the concept of a heaven or a hell, or rebirth and karma wouldn't exist, and some Great Monster of Virtue wouldn't punish us for being glitches. At the same time, too much glitching is not good - I mean, we agree that murder, rape, abuse, et cetera are not good things - that is to say, harming other people is not a good thing.
Your choices, your likes and your dislikes are personal things - maybe you're into BDSM, maybe you're straight, maybe you identify as a certain sex - it makes you happy, and it makes living your life easier. It shouldn't displease anyone else. Hell, even if you're not into monogamy, that's fucking fine as long as you find a partner who is comfortable with that sort of relationship! And if anybody is not okay with it, that's also fine, as long as they realise that it's not their life, and they don't act based on this preference. I mean sure, you'd act on it in the sense that you wouldn't choose for yourself a partner who wants an open relationship when you yourself don't want one, but you don't act on it by making somebody's life miserable just because their choices are different from yours!
So I guess my question is, are we just naturally so damn stubborn that we cannot understand the concept of personal choices? Is it religion that screwed us up, or are we just so terribly screwed up already, and religion just gave us another irrational something to get worked up over?
Now, religion has been a major thing, and traditions and culture, based on religion. What if humans lived lives wherein the whole concept of religion had been completely obliterated, and what governed us would only be the rules of science? Science is all facts, you don't bring morals and ethics into science.
So what rules would we live by - what would be right, and what would be wrong? Would things even be different from how they are now (considering that religion could just be a bunch of rules that some distinctly unsupernatural entities decided were great, and preached about under the pretence that they were, in fact, decreed by some magical, supreme being)?
We'd still be threatened by anything different, for one - glitches in the system must be removed, after all. Perhaps, and I do personally think this would be true, we'd be more open minded because the concept of a heaven or a hell, or rebirth and karma wouldn't exist, and some Great Monster of Virtue wouldn't punish us for being glitches. At the same time, too much glitching is not good - I mean, we agree that murder, rape, abuse, et cetera are not good things - that is to say, harming other people is not a good thing.
Your choices, your likes and your dislikes are personal things - maybe you're into BDSM, maybe you're straight, maybe you identify as a certain sex - it makes you happy, and it makes living your life easier. It shouldn't displease anyone else. Hell, even if you're not into monogamy, that's fucking fine as long as you find a partner who is comfortable with that sort of relationship! And if anybody is not okay with it, that's also fine, as long as they realise that it's not their life, and they don't act based on this preference. I mean sure, you'd act on it in the sense that you wouldn't choose for yourself a partner who wants an open relationship when you yourself don't want one, but you don't act on it by making somebody's life miserable just because their choices are different from yours!
So I guess my question is, are we just naturally so damn stubborn that we cannot understand the concept of personal choices? Is it religion that screwed us up, or are we just so terribly screwed up already, and religion just gave us another irrational something to get worked up over?
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