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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org -4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Of course evil is an actual heuristic - what point are you trying to make here?

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's a useless heuristic, because it's a fuckin magical metaphysical one. If you're not a christian who believes in a spirit world, then stop letting the church define reality for you. Good and evil as concepts have no more valence on physical reality than karma or sin, and have no power to explain why things happen.

Children think in good and evil. Adults think in cause and effect. Be scientific.

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

Does River think their special for calling an unspecified murder a cause and effect instead of an evil? I dont think in a Christian way. I still think its fucking normal to call shit evil instead of explaining how the effects of murder are painful for the following litany of reasons