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You can avoid all these dilemmas by remembering that humans were given the divine spark, and given dominion over all animals by the one true God. Also, since an
by wincy 3y ago
You can avoid all these dilemmas by remembering that humans were given the divine spark, and given dominion over all animals by the one true God. Also, since animals don’t have souls and we do, it’s fine if we eat the aliens. They can’t eat us, obviously, that would be immoral.
I can hardly imagine how tortured and awful an existence it’d be to not believe that humans are special and unique, and that we just go into the dirt and stop existing when we die.
We humans truly are the most fortunate beings in the cosmos!
I used to be a fairly militant atheist but I feel much less conflicted now about these things and am far more relaxed and at ease.
- dTal 3y agoI prefer to believe things because they're true, rather than because they're convenient. You can indeed avoid a lot of awkward moral dilemmas by simply declaring yourself more morally deserving by definition, but in doing so you leave the path of morality entirely. And in that case, why stop at the human species? You can avoid even more moral dilemmas by declaring yourself inherently superior to other humans. I believe this is popular amongst the billionaire set.