Re: Is Neo-Atheism The Way to Go? [Poll]
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This is all well and good until we get to the short list of things for which you think it is acceptable to mock people for. All you are saying he is that religion isnt on your list. You give no justification for WHY it isnt on your list, and although it SEEMS like you are claiming you dont even have a list, I find that nearly impossible to believe.
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There are different criteria used to determine the basis for mockery, and a list of actions or types of people is only one of them. That moralistic context of whether a person who does such-and-such "deserves" to be mocked is flawed IMO. I mock people rarely, when I think it has psychological utility.
Mocking beliefs is another story - by mocking a belief I can express my contempt for it. That can have value.
But it's not a moralistic question for me..
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