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It is more like "right makes might" -- The belief that people who act rightly will become stronger and therefore strength is a sign of moral rectitude.
by afarrell 4y ago
It is more like "right makes might" -- The belief that people who act rightly will become stronger and therefore strength is a sign of moral rectitude.
- pygy_ 4y agoWell, it's probably both, feeding one another.
- furyg3 4y agoThis is how I read it as well. I'm doing well because I deserve it, other people are doing badly because they don't. In this sense the title can be read as "Incompassionate people behave antisocially"
- pygy_ 4y ago> I'm doing well because I deserve it ... and therefore I behave in unethical ways. It's not my fault, it's destiny.
- falcolas 4y agoIt can’t be unethical if you’re being rewarded for it by the guy in the sky.
- pygy_ 4y ago:-) From my understanding of the scriptures, they're supposed to be ultimately punished...
- falcolas 4y agoIdeally, but the feedback loop is too long to have a positive effect in this world. Plus, there are enough examples in those same scriptures of immediate feedback to reinforce the “I’m doing well now, thus I’m doing the right thing” mentality.
- jrs235 4y agoThe danger of Calvinism.
- origin_path 4y agoIf you don't believe that, then it leads to nihilismm, apathy or Marxism. The idea that there is or should be a link between effort and reward is fundamental to any functioning society. It's actually people who don't believe in the just world hypothesis who end up acting anti-socially, as history makes clear.