[ExI] the law

[Dave Sill]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:06 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> What if one is an atheist.  What is the Higher Law then?
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Do The Right Thing. My guiding principle is non-aggression: violence only
in reaction to violence.

Does every atheist get to create her own?
>

Effectively. We have to make decisions that we can live with, We don't have
a God to which we can assign responsibility for our actions.

Suppose a guy is protesting your church and causing believers to fall away
> and apostatize.
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Our atheist church? Or are you off atheists now?

Is it a time to break the law in order to destroy that guy, calling up
> Higher Law?  If morality demands it, is it OK to use phony evidence in
> court?
>

Potentially, depending upon one's beliefs. I certainly wouldn't destroy
people just for protesting my beliefs. Phony evidence? Possibly, but the
burden of proof to convince me it's the right thing to do is very high.


> Is the legal code irrelevant?
>

Sure: it's the law of the land. If one violates it, one must expect
consequences.


> Or suppose your Higher Law clearly says to slay the infidel.  This is
> illegal of course, but right there it is, clearly stated in the Holy Book,
> rocks calling out there is a Jew hiding behind me, slay him.  What if that
> constitutes Higher Law for the fidel?
>

Then you face the consequences.


> Everybody OK with that?
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> I’m not.
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I am. What's the alternative? Outlaw religion? It'd just go underground.

-Dave
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