Quote:
Originally Posted by dirtyplotte when did i ever say anything to the contrary? |
you didn't, but that was the only question in my entire post iirc and you didn't respond to it.
well actually, you kind of did say it when you implied that people who were not aware of history or were naive about human "nature" (e.g. anarchists in your estimation) were not trustworthy.
Quote:
Originally Posted by dirtyplotte absolutely not. thats absurd to even venture out of that reasoning. comparing lessening of punishment for theft from death to probation to total anarchy is so far out of left field im flabbergasted |
fine. tell me what it is you meant to get across by saying that humans have become better over time and using their forms of punishment as the sole means of judging this because I don't get it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by dirtyplotte  yeah, thats what anarchy is about. |
I don't think that and I didn't say you do either but it is what lots of people think and for you to pretend otherwise is silly.
Quote:
Originally Posted by dirtyplotte no one does. so why say youre athiest? |
Because the idea of a god is absurd to me. It makes no logical sense and no sense based on what I know about science either.
I said there is an insignificant chance that god exists but I also believe there's an equal (and equally insignificant) chance that a flying spaghetti monster created the universe.
I don't understand why it's so hard for people to believe that others are atheists. Everyone is atheist about gods people have had in the past and even other contemporary gods; I'm just atheist about them all.
Quote:
Originally Posted by dirtyplotte why not admit agnosticism? |
because I'm not agnostic. See this is why I resist labels because people are too obsessed with them.
Quote:
Originally Posted by dirtyplotte and for that matter if youre seeking to call yourself an anarchist bc it sounds cooler than libertarian socialist, by ALL MEANS go ahead. |
I'm not an anarchist. In an ideal world I would be but the world we live in is pretty far from ideal. I'm not interested in labels or sounding cool either.