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there isn’t a scoresheet that sorts them into a tidy “Good” column and an equally neat “Bad” column

There could be. Maybe we can make one. Maybe one was already made.

I don’t think you can banish feelings

If you mean to banish as in to remove, then why not remove bad or nonconstructive feelings? If all things hateful is ultimately counterproductive, and hate is a degree of intensity from the emotion of dislike, then moderating that level of dislike ought to be good, just logically. Removing (banishing) hateful feelings, or being anti-hate, seems both popular and logical.

I chose to be better

to what end or by what metric? I mean you ought to be anti-materialist, religious, or idealistic if you don't value your own survival for its own sake. It'd be spiritual or non-materialistic to believe that there's something more significant than the outcomes of who gets to survive/die. Same applies for associated cruel but successful strategies (i.e., capitalism, colonialism, statism, militarism)

I recognize that this is a dark thought. If good people die off, then is good not biologically adaptive? We can think of institutions, colonialism, religion as predatory super-organisms or hiveminds. If they keep propagating while those who you are sympathetic toward don't, then it seems like something is not working here, yeah? It could be adopting predatory behavior yourself, but obviously that's not desirable. Then all I can think of is anti-predator adaption such as hiding/ invisibility/camouflaging, pretending to be a bigger threat, being part of a big crowd, or fighting back. I got most of these from this wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-predator_adaptation

this is a witty comment and it made me laugh

cheap in money, expensive in time and effort.

the point is that a car is labor-saving in the context of groceries.

That can be a long, painful walk depending on where you live. Even with public transportation, there are stretches (say a mile or more) where you're caring at least 20 lbs of groceries. Without a backpack or a cart, it's quite the pain.

Yeah, I agree with being skeptical of rules of churches. However, something must have worked out well for them to maintain an ideology or pattern of behaviors over the generations, from parents to children, parents to children, parents to children, on and on for hundreds of years. I can't even follow-through on my new years resolution, yet the church has figured out how to keep people praying beyond their lifespan. We could learn a thing or two as to how they are able to change patterns of behavior consistently for a long period of time. Rituals, concerts, rankings, aesthetics, events/meetings, these are all factors

God is fiction. That's the point. When you say, "fictional god," it comes with "shut the fuck up" which is angry and emotional. When I say, "fictional god," I say it with a sense of wonder in the same way that Albert Einstein had for his faith in his imagination ("Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world"). I think when you get more into science and math, you begin to realize that the intelligibility of the universe is so particular and odd when the universe could have been many other things. The background noise, the unintelligibility, the nonsense if you will, that might be the source of all creation. Another way of saying this is maybe a radio analogy. Think of our universe like a strong radio signal. There are many other radio stations in other geographic areas that your receiver can't tap into. We can hear the signal, but it would be a mistake to believe that's all there is.

This is a good point, and symbolically speaking, lying is almost like playing god considering that God is "all-knowing", and the liar is distorting knowledge. The liar assumes the power to know what others are thinking. Also, liars assume the power to change reality or perception of reality. Generally, lying is a power, which resembles god because he is all powerful. Using power to ill-ends is obviously undesirable. In the Adam & Eve story, snakes, generally, are symbols of lies, and the apple was a symbol of desire / knowledge / becoming god-like. So coming back to your point, conjuring up a boogieman, or conning someone, is diety-like because you are using the realm of imagination (i.e., god) to change reality, but it's snake-like or satan-like to manipulate imagination to harmful ends. Notably, imagination is also "timeless, spaceless, and immaterial" and in my opinion i think god is imaginary. "God is imaginary" is very atheist sounding, but It's also religious from a platonic forms perspective.

some thoughts

• 1. he made a lot of people feel powerless with his manipulative debate tactics. People resort to violence when they feel powerless
• 2. he was asked about mass shootings before being shot in public. Coincidentally, there was a high school mass shooting in Colorado the same day. It's almost like the trope where people test God's existence and get hit with a lightening strike
• 3. We all have to be aware of and prepared for the risk of homicide whenever leaving the house