10-09-2018, 01:53 PM
(10-09-2018, 01:38 PM)bfine32 Wrote: There sure is.
Do you disagree with the assertion that it is deeds not thoughts that makes one a bad person or were you just quizzing my knowledge of the bible?
I disagree with your assertion. Not just because of the Bible thing, but other reasons. Morality is a subjective thing, which means that what qualifies someone as "bad" is as well. If someone's morality was based around the Bible and considered a sinner to be bad, then thoughts along would qualify someone as such. But there are other times when thoughts make the difference, as well.
Say two people shoot a dog. Same action being taken by both people. One person is doing so out of malice, the other is doing so out of compassion because of a disease. The thought, the intention of the action alters what many people would perceive as the goodness or badness of the person. This means that it's not only action that determines badness.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
