cruz737 wrote...
I'm not really an "Objectivist", especially matters involving morality. Even if poorly reasoned and brutal, it's not hard to see why these groups think and act the way they do and how they justify it. I don't think they really care about our point of view, even if we wrote a nice big paper on why their actions are deplorable, contradicting and illogical.
The killing thing seems like a broad generalization though. Guilt isn't a really good basis for logic or morality, people can be conditioned to feel guilty for things out of their control, or things that impact no one in a negative way. If someone were to kill another human in self defensive I think it's natural and acceptable for them for feel guilt but I wouldn't exactly shame them or tell them what they did was immoral given the circumstances.
Which was my point, based solely on pure logic. A being from the sky telling us to kill our fellow man is illogical. It can be justified sure, but still makes no sense.
You've proven my point, and it's hard to argue this any further, killing is immoral, you're right that their God says its okay, but that's not based on logic, it's based on 3000 year old set of values. "thou shalt not kill" was pretty clear, it wasn't thou shalt not kill unless they don't believe the same as you. They want to believe in a book word for word that written 3000 years ago fine, kill infidels, but that doesn't make it any more morally correct or logical.
It's a point of pride that Christianity ended it's crusade 800 years ago, and the inquisition 500, Islam is simply going through their Crusades, and the rest of the world has to suffer. None of this is to say Christianity is a better religion, or that nonviolent Muslims are also wrong in their following the same book, it is simply a statement that shows Islam is going through something we had to go through before we realized our mistake.
p.s. Read my previous edit if you missed it, it's not in your quote.
edit: You're not even arguing the same thing as me anymore, I didnt say I don't understand why they kill, only that it was morally wrong, and illogical.