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[–] TeryVeneno@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It gets worse, because that’s what people use to justify the argument that people being evil is a part of human nature. Because they genuinely believe that being evil is the default state of humans despite centuries of evidence otherwise.

[–] Rottcodd@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

It's also the reason that religious people can contentedly do horrible things - because they have no ability to make moral judgments on their own, so if their religion tells them that something that anyone with even a minimal ability to reason morally would recognize to be obviously wrong is actually right and proper, they just slavishly believe that it's right and proper.

I dunno, I don't believe in a god, but I also don't believe humans are good either. We're pretty fucked up creatures.