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Because these very distant grandparents of mine ate this stupid fruit they were specifically told not to
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Sometimes people aren't in a good situation to try, or their efforts would be frustrated. Extending a hand to someone when you're stuck in the muck isn't going to be helping them, it'll be helping you (or neither!)
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'sides you didn't even have an option for 'I'm already doing good," just "I'm perfect" which many belief systems assume isn't possible even when doing maximum good. That's what felt like the gotcha, really.
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Because humans are broken and we can't no matter how hard we try
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We need literal divine intervention to not be evil
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These are among the questions that we have religion to answer. “For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.”
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For the nonreligious; "sin that dwells within me" can be mapped to any number of analogous functions, including things like antisocial behavior, undisciplined urges, intrusive impulses, etc. God, however, is a stronger moral axiom than anything secular humanity has yet devised.
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Big if you got there It’s be a shame if someone Made an open question argument and non-naturalized the good
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most people seem to have a bone deep idea of what good ishttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1417711417201881089?s=19 …
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