Message from @Bookworm
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Im in between.
so am i
tho i tend to be closer to shit than amzing ๐
Depends, do you believe that knowledge and understanding are metrics of human virtue?
no
If so, believe in God is good or bad depending on whether or not God exists.
As long as people don't bring religious law or ask for special treatment its fine
Asking for special treatment is something no man should do.
Really? So an utter imbecile is, controlling for all other factors, just as good or valuable a person as a learned genius?
Separate church and state
a humans lived experience and what they're taught from people who inspire them, tends to be the factors that make a person moral/virtuous/good
Isn't being tax-free special treatment
(((State)))
Yup
good != valueable Bookworm
a person can be uneducated, dumb but still be a kind-hearted human being
**who the fuck is tax-free**
a person can be a genius, who spits on people, backstabs them, and knows the greatest secrets
The Church
Yeah no thank you
Any religious entity can become tax free
Anyways
Scientologist as well
I know that it's that way in the US at least
Imagine a society without taxes. How would it work?
Yes, but we were talking about knowledge and understanding, not the other virtues.
Anarchy
I am the state your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the state your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
You measure them by how much of themselves they're willing to sacrifice for the good of strangers
I have an idea of a society without taxes and man is it bleak
Well, halfthink is now god. All hail.
and don't go pointing at SJW's, cuz they want to sacrifice other people, for the good of themselves/anotehr group
A societal framework without capital would be pretty ineffectual, yeah.
I only have Saturdays off work so I'll have to make that my Sabbath
The government doesnโt take taxes, so where does it get its resources to function? War. The nation is in a constant cycle of warfare simply to destroy and subjugate in order to collect resources, be it new citizens or general scrap to fuel themselves.
So, self-sacrifice is the primary quality by which you gauge human virtue, Wol? That's certainly interesting.
A societal framework without capital only works if you have replicators ๐
What other qualities would you define as virtuous I'm just curious
haven't properly thought that through, but it would be what i'd go on for the time being