The Atheists will Guide

@bigdoggproblem said
Speaking as a human, I can admit that my own feelings of guilt are often made worse by the displeasure that others show to me! I should think that it is a common component of guilt.I've felt guilt merely by imaging the potential displeasure of others. Who among us hasn't done a bad thing and then realized that it's going to make someone unhappy, and felt guilty?

These are the kind of interactions/experiences that are continually updating or tweaking or examining or testing our moral compasses.

@fmf said
You can criticize Kevin Eleven for his comments about suicide if you want. You seem to be criticizing me for them.

Don’t be silly Kevin Eleven is in Ghost of a Duke’s club now, so he can do whatever he likes in their eyes.

There was a time when Ghost of a Duke wouldn’t have stood still for comments like that; but times change, principles change I suppose.

@kevin-eleven said
Son of the West, when someone like you seeks something more interesting, the correct way is to become less interesting.

Perhaps sometime in the next few decades you will see the truth of this yourself.

Unfortunately your foul post (and several others by you during your night of the long drunken kinives) where you were accusing another poster of trying to get people here to commit suicide was taken down by the moderator.

If it had been me I would have booted your fairy ass off the site you worthless piece of crap. You should be ashamed of yourself.

But hey you’re in Ghost of Duck’s club now so “all’s good”.

@divegeester said
Don’t be silly Kevin Eleven is in Ghost of a Duke’s club now, so he can do whatever he likes in their eyes.

There was a time when Ghost of a Duke wouldn’t have stood still for comments like that; but times change, principles change I suppose.

You'd have me condemn comments I haven't read, had no interest in reading and that no longer exist?

Do you have me pegged as the Lord Almighty?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Do you have me pegged as the Lord Almighty?

Duck Almighty.

@divegeester said
Duck Almighty.

If it helps, I don't approve of any comments from anyone which shows a flippancy toward suicide.

@divegeester said
Unfortunately your foul post (and several others by you during your night of the long drunken kinives) where you were accusing another poster of trying to get people here to commit suicide was taken down by the moderator.

If it had been me I would have booted your fairy ass off the site you worthless piece of crap. You should be ashamed of yourself.

I nominate you to be a Moderator.

@avalanchethecat said
The case that immediately springs to mind is that of Dennis Neilson. While his childhood was certainly not perfect, he was not subjected to conditions particularly unusual for the time. His actions later in life, however, certainly seem to have a quality that might be reasonably considered 'evil', don't you think? Apart from his deeply unsavoury (see what I did there? ...[text shortened]... demonstrate obvious insanity. Do you not think the term 'evil' could be applied to a man like this?

There are many causes for a person going 'evil', as they like to call it.
A mind can be twisted, unbalanced and snapped in all sorts of ways -- seeking revenge for an injustice; anger at society; sexual frustration; social rejection; being bullied; a chemical brain imbalance; a brain defect from genetic damage ... etc. And then we have the standard sociopaths which are quite common in positions of power and politics.
Furthermore, a researcher in an interview about 2 yrs ago found that nearly all of the mass shooters were on anti-depressant medications; but this bit of news was apparently suppressed and never heard again.

Now take any one or more of these factors and you have a potential ticking time bomb.

@kevin-eleven said
I nominate you to be a Moderator.

Talk to the Duck

@bunnyknight said
There are many causes for a person going 'evil', as they like to call it.
A mind can be twisted, unbalanced and snapped in all sorts of ways -- seeking revenge for an injustice; anger at society; sexual frustration; social rejection; being bullied; a chemical brain imbalance; a brain defect from genetic damage ... etc. And then we have the standard sociopaths which ...[text shortened]... eard again.

Now take any one or more of these factors and you have a potential ticking time bomb.

Of course. As it happens, I agree with you, but for the sake of the argument; which of these causes would you think applied to Neilson? Certainly you could find countless others with similar backgrounds, none of whom felt compelled to murder and partially consume their fellow men. What in him was different? He certainly seems to embody evil, do you not think?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
You'd have me condemn comments I haven't read

You were posting in the forums and playing chess at the time FMF pointed out the post in question location.

@divegeester said
You were posting in the forums and playing chess at the time FMF pointed out the post in question location.

The comments were made in this thread in the early hours of the morning (GMT). I joined the thread 4 or 5 hours later and did not read the (many) posts I had missed. FMF telling everyone about it in the GF did not have me come running here to read it. Why should I? On what planet is it relevant to me?

You seem to have me pegged as the moral godfather of the forums.

@ghost-of-a-duke said

You seem to have me pegged as the moral godfather of the forums.

No...that’s not what I have you pegged as...

@ghost-of-a-duke said
The comments were made in this thread in the early hours of the morning (GMT). I joined the thread 4 or 5 hours later and did not read the (many) posts I had missed. FMF telling everyone about it in the GF did not have me come running here to read it. Why should I? On what planet is it relevant to me?

Wow... so much detail for someone asleep and uninterested in a post by one of their club members being utterly vile to his biggest adversary on the site and then having the post detailed to him in another forum ... but still doesn’t click to look...

.... and yet who seems motivated to read and reply to EVERY post Very Rusty makes.

Yeah right.

@divegeester said
Wow... so much detail for someone asleep and uninterested in a post by one of their club members being utterly vile to his biggest adversary on the site and then having the post detailed to him in another forum ... but still doesn’t click to look...

.... and yet who seems motivated to read and reply to EVERY post Very Rusty makes.

Yeah right.

Am I my brother's keeper?


Edit: And how many times? My biggest adversary is Ben Affleck.