2012-12-17, 02:36 PM
Words Wrote:Why not?
It sounds as if you were saying that morals are irrelevant or as if people acted completely by themselves without society's influence. I could be wrong, so please explain.
They're both relevant which is why I said there's credibility to what he said. However, there are still other factors that could lead to shootings which would have nothing to do with how civilized we are to each other (Such as jealousy being the motive behind a murder) so while teaching people to be nice to each other and to treat others as how they would like to be treated would reduce such cases by a lot it still wouldn't be enough in this guy's eyes. In part I find fault in his rant about hedonistic policies; so long as your hedonism does not actually hurt someone I don't see the relation between people putting pleasure as a priority and gunning down schoolkids.
Tl;dr: Morals and better social policies are one thing while religion and pleasure is quite another.