does anyone know who Schweitzer is nowadays? he was a xian theologian who won a Nobel Prize for developing an ethic of humanitarianism called Reverence for Life . If you’ve ever watched The Fifth Element that is the ethic. “good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil”
I didn’t recognise the name, and it sounds like I’d disagree with him in some ways, but that isn’t the point. You don’t burn shit you don’t like, it needs to be kept around so people can judge for themselves. Evil is as arbitrary as anything else.
He is cordially invited to go burn himself.
I was stunned. I have never heard a person in real life say to burn books.
Phone books were good fire starters
that’s different
does anyone know who Schweitzer is nowadays? he was a xian theologian who won a Nobel Prize for developing an ethic of humanitarianism called Reverence for Life . If you’ve ever watched The Fifth Element that is the ethic. “good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil”
I didn’t recognise the name, and it sounds like I’d disagree with him in some ways, but that isn’t the point. You don’t burn shit you don’t like, it needs to be kept around so people can judge for themselves. Evil is as arbitrary as anything else.
Descends soap box
I don’t think there is anything arbitrary about the evil of slavery or pedophilia.
There are cultures in which practices that could be termed those things are considered both necessary and right.
Do I agree? No.
My profession requires discarding personal perspectives as far as possible.
And emergency toilet paper. If needed, we started with the Murdoch section.
Nasty scratchy stuff, but better than chancing poison ivy or it’s ilk