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Thread #132816   Message #3013396
Posted By: Amos
22-Oct-10 - 07:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Subject: RE: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Mrrz:

You force me to reword my statement. Anger and fear are perfectly natural emotions; but when they are born out of restimulation rather than genuine immediate sources of danger or anger, they induce irrationality which is by its nature counter to optimum decision making. You don't hear the truth from an angry man, and usually not from a frightened one, either. By their very nature, fear and anger throw the viewpoint out of perspective and rivet the attention on an immediate threat.

Because of this rhetorical manipulators who want you to act irrationally often try to inspire fear and anger by restimulating you.

I am not saying these things are not human, I am saying they are not rational.


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