02-18-2015, 12:50 PM
(02-17-2015, 11:01 PM)Shemaya Wrote: But as you have seen, holding your convictions as a moral standard for "spiritual people" has not been received well. Honestly, I think it is a veiled perspective on the issue, it doesn't take the whole picture into consideration, and you already know that dogmatic and rigid belief systems do not work well, they end up causing more pain and suffering for humans who are in the "outgroup" (who don't fit into the belief system).
The objections to my sig aren't because it's a 'rigid dogma.' It's because they don't agree with it.
No one would be objecting if my sig said Knowingly, unnecessarily raping and killing little children is STS.
No one would be crying "Dogma! Dogma! You are trying to impose your beliefs on us!"