I'm Agnostic. 😉
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Originally posted by Friend44
So, some savant ones came up with the idea of a benevolent god who is impervious to anything.
Hardly - the Old Testament seems to tell us of an angry, vengeful God, only interested in our benevolence.
Originally posted by Friend44
If we didn't have laws we could not function as a society. It would be chaos everywhere.
That depends on your definition of laws.
In the generic sense, meaning legislation put in place by a ruling body, many would say you’re wrong – I’m one of em. In nature, animals manage to coexist without laws, and do so by mutual understanding. For example, female lions hunt with other females from their pride because they know its much harder to hunt alone, and share their kills because they know that otherwise, the females would take it all and chase her away. Similarly, dolphins protect all other members of their schools because they realize such is the only way it would be reciprocated. Seeing as how the average human has an IQ the equivalent of or even superior to that of a lioness or dolphin, I see a strong possibility that we would act in the same way, much as we did in primitive tribes.
Reluctantly referring, yet again, to John Locke’s correct theories regarding Social Contract Theory, he said that we would instinctively form social connections with would further our personal need. If Jean Claude Van Damme needed help his physics (work with me, here 😛 ) and Stephen Hawking needed someone to help him do, well, anything, an arrangement would be made. Seeing as how both would realize (well, Jean Claude may need someone to explain it to him) that deviation from the arrangement would lead to personal suffering, they would be motivated to stick to it. Likewise, as long as the arrangement was in place, both parties would abstain from doing any harm to the other, as that would presumably end the relationship. This type of behavior would be dispersed to reach all of society, and though there would be no formalized edicts, a lesser order would be present. In the end, we’d have a sort of normalized Darwinism, which unlike capitalism would reset with every generation. 😛
Were you to be specific, referring to all perceived constants in society, you would be correct. Absolute Truth’s absence, including the absolute truth that Absolute Truth doesn’t exist, would indeed be bothersome. 😛 Only when there are no predictable outcomes will people cease making social arrangements.