Well, you have no proof that there is an afterlife, and I’m sure you acknowlege that people do die in prison. So, you have no problem torturing people for the rest of their existence, right?
Circular logic. If they are restrained from doing so, then they are not doing so, and therefore by your reasoning should not be restrained.
You pretend to know quite a bit about this hell you do not believe in. It may be not so different from the hell you do believe in.
I don’t find there is anything wrong with teaching people not to harm others, which is, you might notice, what I am doing here. If you don’t think restraint is punishment go lock yourself up since this would not diminish your happiness.
Who ever said these things should be abolished? I said the evil take care of their own. It will be this way until the end of the age.
To resist, in the context of the rest of the passage, implies physical force. You are being overly literal. Please attempt to take into account this has been translated from the greek, antihistemi, basically meaning to stand against.
Plenty of societies follow his teachings.
Plenty of humans have followed his teachings.
You are right. Sorry! :embarrased:
Well, how do you define that? By your definition, Russia didn’t try communism, since they were just a subculture in a larger capitalist order.
:rolleyes: Well, lately people have had guns and swords and the like. Are you saying if Archduke Ferdinand have been beaten to death instead of shot, World War I wouldn’t have happened? A war which caused World War II, by the war, which resulted in the holocaust and the developement of nuclear warfare, which lead to the Cold War. How many people were killed because one lone nut didn’t like some minor potentate?
I don’t know. How often do people hit you for no reason?
You said you would call the police. If they are not your friends, why do you think they would help you?
Apparently so.
You don’t find “knocking out” someone to be hurting them?
Taken advantage of how?
Not yet.