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by TrapLord_Rhodo 1567 days ago
That's the opposite of reality though. Mark Twain has a good quote here:

"It is murder all along the line. Here are countless multitudes of creatures, and they all kill, kill, kill, they are all murderers. And they are not to blame, Divine One?” “He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children."
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52-6F-62 1567 days ago
Philosophy, like sciences, are broken down into domain functions.

You cannot simply take one statement and apply it ad-hoc if it suits you.

Twain was certainly not speaking to the larger sphere of existence. Is the earth murdering you and consuming you when you lay down to die of old age? We are all subject.

Twain was speaking in the voice of the dogmatic Christian Satan, who was questioning the Christian God’s righteousness and design.

It was metaphor to show the flaws in rooting your philosophy in something grounded so poorly. This (might makes right) philosophy that Twain was dressing down is the same Putin and Russia are using to press upon other nations.

I can understand what you’re trying to say, but you’ve got your reasoning all kinds of backwards.

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TrapLord_Rhodo 1567 days ago
>Philosophy, like sciences, are broken down into domain functions.

But Philosophy is not a science, it's a human construct.

>you’ve got your reasoning all kinds of backwards.

It's rather a lack of reasoning. Anything that is claimed as "Moral" always begs the question to what end.

If i 'Can' it is.

You and you're morals of do no harm, act fairly in dealings, etc. etc. end up being counter-morals when reality strikes because the universe doesn't caree about your codee of conduct or your "Rules & morals". Putin certainly doesn't.

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52-6F-62 1567 days ago
Words have meaning my friend. I never called philosophy a science. It’s the font that scientific reasoning sprung from.

The rest of your comment I can’t decipher. I’m not sure why you’re injecting me into this. I’m not a player here.

It may also be worth considering that the quote you used to justify war, was written by a pacifist:

https://sojo.net/articles/mark-twains-radical-pacifism

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/opinion/l15twain.html

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