by KopaLeo » September 14th, 2011, 5:50 am
Baya had the point. (Actually there are some Hindu who don't dare to move in fear that they might kill some insect)
I think the main problem is a confusion of morality's ability to direct actions. Morality is only a set of shorthand rules for convenience. When there is a clash between rationality and morality, rationality is the correct one. And rationally, cruelty should only be curbed when the victim could retaliate or you'll get hurt in some other way, when not, then it should not affect you. These all look Machiavellian, I know, but I think these are rational.
"The more we find out about the universe, the more meaningless it all seems...... The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
——Steven Weinberg