“I’m going to stand around and let the genocide get worse, because I’m morally superior! 🤓☝️”

Yeah!

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Have I just stolen The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and given it to you?

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Death Grips

Or just increase the size of the pen tool…

This hallway will always feel like home to me

Nah, it’s just a joke. Maybe a cisnormative joke, but as a trans woman myself I didn’t think twice about it.

In my book, for something to be transphobic it has to intentionally discredit or attack trans people.

“Female” is a descriptor of sex

Just like “theory” is a rigorously tested hypothesis. We’re not all professional biologists and doctors, it’s different colloquially.

I haven’t seen much of it at all in my 1+ year here, so y’all are doing a great job :3

Sure. And nobody claimed “God doesn’t exist.” Two people now have told you that you’re mistaken, but you insist.

From our perspective it seems like you’re imposing a baseless claim onto us so you can feel better about your own baseless claims. Only theists say atheism is a claim.

I don’t think there is one single test that could encompass bad standards of evidence, but the whole “just have faith” thing is a dead giveaway. Hostility towards skepticism is another. Circular logic is also a pretty good indicator, like saying your holy text is the truth because your holy text says it’s true. I guess the simplest and most effective test would be to see if the standard of evidence could be used to justify any claim.

And for good standards of evidence, I think it depends on the context and claim. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and all that. If you told me “I got a pet goldfish” the only evidence I really need is your word. But for claims about how the universe works and why it is the way it is, you might need much more sound reasoning, math that checks out when measurements or numbers are involved, a demonstration or test to serve as proof, etc…

Lastly, by agreeing that there is not universality …

The majority of people who smoke don’t die from it but that doesn’t mean cigarettes aren’t problematic. I’m not saying all religions are bigoted or anything, but I am saying having any sort of doctrine opens the door to outdated beliefs overriding what we’d normally consider moral, and that by itself is problematic.

I’d also just like to say I think this has been the most civil conversation in the whole thread, so cheers to that lol

Wouldn’t that be long term memory loss

There already is an “easy mode”. It’s an RPG, you can just over-level yourself and max out your weapon upgrades if it’s too hard. If that’s not enough you can summon two whole players to do the fighting for you.

To prep for the DLC I made a new character, beelined it to my favorite spot to grind runes, and with my character at level 100 I just went through the world 1/2-shotting all the mobs. Then for all the bosses I couldn’t kill in a handful of shots I just summoned two people to help. It does take patience but you can make the base game an absolute cakewalk.

Still arguably both. Even if their doctrine isn’t problematic, the sort of standard of evidence you seem to need to believe religious claims is what gets us things like antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists.

It may not be universal but you’re certainly opening the door for it if you believe truth comes from uncritical belief. That by itself is still “problematic” even if the consequences aren’t as blatant.

Ask literally any atheist here if they claim “god does not exist”

That’s true, they can mould their interpretation however they need to so it conforms to their own morality, but that doesn’t come from the religion.

If you gave an alien any of the abrahamic holy texts and then dropped it on earth it’d probably behave pretty abhorrently. In order to behave more civilly it’d have to learn from the society it was dropped into, not the religion.

Most churches and other theists do a pretty good job of doing that and that’s a great thing, but the way I see it, the religion itself is inherently problematic until people mould it into something resembling secular morality.

No, this was your misunderstanding:

Atheists on the other hand can say “look, there is no god… See?”

The language is irrelevant, you’re claiming something that’s just untrue for 99% of atheists. You going on to distinguish “agnostics” from “atheists” isn’t the real issue.

Same. Guess I won’t bother looking into it if it’s impossible 🤷‍♀️