• Kedly@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        Tbf, there were a few times I’ve wanted to murder some people.

        • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          same. But it’s not fear of God that keeps me from doing it. It’s the dread of going to prison.

          Just like Taco Guy. He knows there are no tacos in prison so he lives life in such a way to avoid prison.

  • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I always hate that argument. Why be a decent human without the threat of eternal damnation? I mean that threat doesn’t seem to stop a vast number of religious people from being unbelievably cruel to their fellow humans, so…

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    People who say they are only good because of the threat of eternal damnation are literal psychopaths.

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This person is openly telling you that the only thing stopping them from being a shitty person is some myth about otherworldly punishment after they die.

    Which, of course, means they’ll be juuuust as shitty as they believe they can get away with.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, the “why be good if there’s no God/Hell” is a disturbing as fuck argument, because it essentially says that if they decide that their god wants them to start killing, they’ll do it.

      I’m good because if I do something bad, I feel bad about it. It’s pretty simple.

    • niktemadur@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Maybe, just maybe, also because that may have been the way to get some impulsive but simple-minded people to not make a mess for those around them. Didn’t work with everyone, though. If it ever did, with anyone.

      Also, it seems shockingly easy to get some people to commit evil acts as they think they are doing good… and that usually comes carrying a lot of religious ideology and/or methodology, curiously enough.

      • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, it can be easily influenced. See Stanford prisoner experiment. Religion can be an influence too, but religios people can’t imagine a life without it.