My god, I’m immediately hooked by the beginning. I’ve got stuff I’m supposed to working on. Or— maybe I can use the audio version, that way I can eat ice cream while I listen to the rest. Okay, problem solved. Thanks for your help!
I’m sorta pleased to have distracted you! No Substacker can say fairer than that. To be fair, I read your own short-story pot this morning when I was meant to be doing the washing-up.
Totally agreed about the self-righteousness issue. One if my favourite words is ‘antinomianism’. Only partly because it’s really obscure. Any position that rests on a position of moral self-satisfaction is to be questioned. I say that even though I know I’m just as vulnerable to it as anyone.
Doubtless forcing people to watch executions is not a great idea. It might induce a number of cardiac arrests for one thing. But Dr Diaz is quite right that whatever position we take ought to be at least thought-through. Too often, people’s view is formed when their blood is up and their cognitive skills down.
Now that I’ve read it— I’m opposed to capital punishment, but I agree with your logic— if you’re hypocritical on meat eating, you should be aware of that in yourself and tamp down the self-righteousness.
I’m simply opposed to it. I don’t argue that people who are not opposed to it are wrong.
I’m not convinced that forcing every American to watch an execution would change the stats much, if at all. Also— you could just as reasonably argue that anti-capital punishment people should be forced to see what murderers have done to their victims.
Generally, I think that when we’re being self-righteous, there’s a good chance we have overlooked information or logic that might have made us less comfortable about judging others while congratulating ourselves.
You are quite right - it was indeed! Of course, Christianity has taken on numberless forms since then & I guess some are more strongly in favour of capital punishment than others.
My god, I’m immediately hooked by the beginning. I’ve got stuff I’m supposed to working on. Or— maybe I can use the audio version, that way I can eat ice cream while I listen to the rest. Okay, problem solved. Thanks for your help!
I’m sorta pleased to have distracted you! No Substacker can say fairer than that. To be fair, I read your own short-story pot this morning when I was meant to be doing the washing-up.
Totally agreed about the self-righteousness issue. One if my favourite words is ‘antinomianism’. Only partly because it’s really obscure. Any position that rests on a position of moral self-satisfaction is to be questioned. I say that even though I know I’m just as vulnerable to it as anyone.
Doubtless forcing people to watch executions is not a great idea. It might induce a number of cardiac arrests for one thing. But Dr Diaz is quite right that whatever position we take ought to be at least thought-through. Too often, people’s view is formed when their blood is up and their cognitive skills down.
Now that I’ve read it— I’m opposed to capital punishment, but I agree with your logic— if you’re hypocritical on meat eating, you should be aware of that in yourself and tamp down the self-righteousness.
I’m simply opposed to it. I don’t argue that people who are not opposed to it are wrong.
I’m not convinced that forcing every American to watch an execution would change the stats much, if at all. Also— you could just as reasonably argue that anti-capital punishment people should be forced to see what murderers have done to their victims.
Generally, I think that when we’re being self-righteous, there’s a good chance we have overlooked information or logic that might have made us less comfortable about judging others while congratulating ourselves.
You are quite right - it was indeed! Of course, Christianity has taken on numberless forms since then & I guess some are more strongly in favour of capital punishment than others.