[extropy-chat] Faculty X

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

So what about a spiritual atheist like me?
G.

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 05:09:50 +0000, Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> Imagine a group of people who lack a certain innate quality of the
> psyche, faculty X.
> Their lives are both made easier in some circumstances, and more
> difficult in others because they cannot understand in any depth what it
> is they lack. They know the words for it, what effects are manifest in
> other people, and tend to consider those who possess faculty X
> themselves be irrational and enslaved by it. They have learned to work
> around such foibles in others and even exploit them for their own
> benefit. They feel themselves to be a superior kind of person because
> they lack this obviously useless baggage.
> 
> When X =  conscience we call these people psychopaths
> When X = spirituality we call these people atheists
> 
> --
> Dirk