From: masterplum | #076
Yes they are wrong But you can not hate someone who is only acting in your self interest
If your mother made you a sandwich that unknowingly contained meat that made you sick for the next week, do you hate her for giving you food poisoning?
Uh, yeah, I can hate someone for "acting in my self-interest" when that means they're telling me I'm incapable of making decisions for myself and trying to rule my life for me. Because that's not my self-interest, that's what they THINK is my self-interest, and what I actually think is beneficial be damned. Why are their beliefs allowed to take precedence over mine? I believe that there is no after life, which means this is the only life that matters - they aren't doing me any favours by trying to make the only time I'll ever have worse.
That's a faulty analogy; it would be more like my mother making me a sandwich that contains, say...red pepper, which she knows I'm allergic to, but she gives it to me anyway and has me fined or thrown in jail for refusing because "red pepper is healthy and goof for you". (as a side note I'm not allergic to red pepper and would like a sandwich with it now <_<). They aren't "unknowingly" doing anything, they know full well that if I don't follow their belief system, I consider having their beliefs forced on me harmful.
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