Re: What Atheists Can't Answer

On Jul 16, 1:15 pm, tetrehedronicrystal <boisenberryfie...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Jul 16, 8:09 pm, Buddhaish420 <toddmthomp...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ha. Except when you consider that what goes around comes around - aka
karma actually works. It's a Universal Law like gravity is a physical
one. So, ultimately, although it might seem selfish, you are elevating
yourself as well as mankind when you act with kindness and compassion
and virtually destroying the world when the alternate route is taken.

~o~

I agree that acting with kindness and compassion is a great idea but
also very subjective. For example, a few years back greenpeace and
others blocked a shipment of GM grain to africa. They considered it an
act of compassion because of the small chance of 'future' health
problems from eating the grain. But then starvating is killing people
right now. So what's more compassionate, put people at risk of
furture, possibly treatable, illness or let them die now? Did anyone
bother to ask what the people wanted? (sorry, old but bleeding wound
from their act of compassion)
Karma is just another form of god, another cosmic judge to dispense
reward and punishment without context and just as nonexistent...

.

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