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Tribalism around made up fantasies is one of the worst attributes of the human. All humans suffer from it.

• Brian_K_White 2y ago
  As an atheist myself, in full agreement on all the harms that descend from validating magical thinking. But so what? That's an observation of no relevance. That particular "tribe", fantasy and all, still put me to shame for being good people. Including specifically in the more intellecual impersonal justice/fairness ways that I generally like to think I have down. The observation about the harms of religion, in this case without an actual example of how it applies in this case, ends up only looking defensive. What are you threatened by that you feel the need to try to attack the simple assertion that some people are nice?
  • WeylandYutani 2y ago
    Dutch people are basically atheist, soulless, cold, materialistic and hedonistic assholes but they pay half their income in taxes so that nobody starves. Because it is the right thing to do. Nice is overrated.
    • Brian_K_White 2y ago
      Good for them. So what? Those aspects of the Dutch, even if granted, don't prove or disprove anything about the Sikhs. This conversation isn't trying to claim that religion is good and is the only way to be good. Saying that nice is overrated doesn't really even intersect with the assertion that the Sikhs are very nice. It's not like nice is bad, and my use of the word nice was just a catch-all for a whole bag of virtues, not some narrow definition that means they smile while still abusing peoiple or something. In a follow-up comment I also said "integrity". Is integrity overrated? What did you think you were proving or disproving? And why did you feel the need to in the first place in response to something so benign? What about the original assertion is so threatening?