Message from @rilath
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"Social contract" is a meaningless thing to state as your rule unless you outline what said contract actually is
Golden rule is, equally, not helpful in itself. If you do not impose some other moral code upon yourself, for instance, you would wish yourself not to be punished when you are caught doing something wrong; if you do impose said code on youself and accept the consequences, then the golden rule merely states that you should apply that to everyone else. It can't, therefore, form a moral rule of its own, it merely means that you have to apply whatever your rule is universally.
NAP is a good ethical system, and synergises well with social contract theory, but I see no great advantage to it as a moral system. It is simply too easy to think up situations where violence as a response to non-violent action seems perfectly morally acceptable, even if it must be ethically condemned.
Overall, likely to lead to a decent person who won't cause any outrages, but is a bit skeletal and would probably break down in lots of awkward moral positions.
Let me try to help you understand it a little bit better - I understand I only gave you a tldr version with some buzzwords.
A social contract is a contract that you, as an individual, as well as all other individuals in X society, have agreed to uphold. I live in America, so my "social contract" is US law.
Personally, and in my ideal living environment/community, the social contract would operate on 2 axioms - the golden rule and the non aggression principle, which I hope are pretty self explanatory. For the most part, this is what US law operates on, but obviously there are some discrepancies.
So, you would allow the laws to dictate morality?
No absolutely not. In the US, *most* laws are originated from NAP and golden rule (some are not, drug possession laws for example). I'm saying in my ideal system, all laws would be in alignment with NAP and golden rule.
Thoughts on fusing Christianity and Paganism?
Ew
Gross
i'm all for it
Leave Jeebus out of my religion
christianity is a cucked religion, turn the other cheek has been corrupted to apply to ALL people, instead of ones own people only
“Worship a Jew”
No thanks bra
you fucking memelord you dont understand
it doesnt mean you need to become christian
im saying christianity could benefit of a reformation to become more combatative
like the orthodox priests blessing soldiers' guns etc.
but if you're too attached to your 'kike on a stick lelz' to see anything more than memage, that's fine too.
Dunno, it was just an idea that popped into my mind
Jolly crocodile, just a bit of research on my part. All taken from the book of John.
And quite as clearly he regards Jesus as not “a Jew.” In talking to the Jews, Jesus speaks of “your Law” (John 7:19, 8:17, 10:34) and “your circumcision” (John 7:22). Abraham is “your father” (John 8:56). When the Jews say to him, “Our ancestors ate manna in the desert” (John 6:31), Jesus replies, “What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven” (John 6:32), and later on says, “Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert” (John 6:49).
I didn't write that out, from some website, but the scripture is accurate
they ate the mana in the desert
this is why nobody has magic anymore
everyone's permanently oom
Those kikes ate all the mana
FIGURES
>Be me
>Be Jolly Crocodile
>Woah, Worship a Kike!?
Heh, I'm so edgy you guys. Look at me. 😆 😉
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The Europeans already did fuse christianity and paganism, though, and the result was pre-reformation Catholocism
Worked pretty well for a bit, then fucked itself up later
Orthodox still seem to be going strong
^80% correct. We'll take it.
last i checked a great big old group of christians still buy chocolate bunnies and eggs for easter
absorbing pagan cults is how christianity bloomed
you dont think the king would call for a census in mid december in the northern hemisphere right?
Christians bought most of the leaderships and then the leaderships forced christianity onto the populance
Doesnt really matter now
gotta love the /Virgin/ Armchair Theologians.
I'm a man of the faith, but even I understand why chocolate, rabbits and eggs are an easter thing
any special significance of chocolate kinda escapes me
it revolves around the spring equinox and all three are fertility symbols