Could You Be A Terrorist or Suicide Bomber?

Originally posted by long pig
Ok, basically the crux of the question was "If there was a God and you totally believed in that God, 100 percent, and that God offered you heaven and all you had to do to get it was something that you know is clearly wrong, would you do it?" Does that make more sense? It's asking if your moral core is based on how you feel or how you're told to feel. Defy God and do the right thing. I don't know. I'm not the smartest person in the world, I'm sorry.

Well, that's not really what this example shows. What it shows is whether your moral compass includes killing for eternal happiness as justifiable or not...

To get at what you want you'd have to exclude rewards or punishment, so it is just based on authority. Though authority too is usually build on punishment and reward, so I am not sure where the authority would come from.

You got to be really brainwashed by someone to be either one of these.

Originally posted by King Kandy
Well this is a pretty strange question. It's basically "Would you be a suicide bomber if you had the mindset of a suicide bomber?" Well, yes. I don't really see how it could ever be otherwise.

Yeah, I agree with the above.

Everyone would do it cuz they think it's right. But obviously I wouldn't think of myself as a bad person terrorizing other people but a freedom fighter or someone to whom the first wrong had been done. Like the Kashmiris-they fought because their lands were taken and families perished. You don't turn into a massacring monster for no reason. there is usually if not always a complex history and personality behind it. Only a person with nothing to lose anymore would do such a thing imo.

**** yeah, I could be! I'd be the goddamn best terrorist there is, too!!!

I believe it.

Originally posted by long pig
Ok, basically the crux of the question was "If there was a God and you totally believed in that God, 100 percent, and that God offered you heaven and all you had to do to get it was something that you know is clearly wrong, would you do it?" Does that make more sense? It's asking if your moral core is based on how you feel or how you're told to feel. Defy God and do the right thing. I don't know. I'm not the smartest person in the world, I'm sorry.

The OP is a bit nonsensical. If my beliefs actually met the criteria mentioned in the OP, I wouldn't actually be me in any current context of the word. Yes, of course, if my synapses were changed in such a way that I truly believed it was right to do that, I would do that. It's almost a priori in its delivery. Anyone saying "no" is just deluding themselves into thinking that some current "them" could override the new person without having any plausible mechanism for doing so.

A few others have mentioned this, but it was my first thought.

Originally posted by Digi
The OP is a bit nonsensical. If my beliefs actually met the criteria mentioned in the OP, I wouldn't actually be me in any current context of the word. Yes, of course, if my synapses were changed in such a way that I truly believed it was right to do that, I would do that. It's almost a priori in its delivery. Anyone saying "no" is just deluding themselves into thinking that some current "them" could override the new person without having any plausible mechanism for doing so.

A few others have mentioned this, but it was my first thought.

All it takes for a mindset change like that is a cause or a loss or a betrayal.

To be sure...

I wouldn´t be able to go and kill loads of people for no reason, for some daft belief. What I could do in an end of the world chaos scenario is kill to survive.

the hard part is imagining myself believing that such an absurd idea was actually true

imagining myself committing mass murder somehow comes much easier