Reply #27: There is nothing hypocritical about trying

[EAMcClure]

Yeah, I feed my cat MEAT products... NUTRO canned food. My cat is... A CAT! Not a human being, not something that presumably has free will. My kitty, outside his predilection for wheat grass, is a carnivore. I won't inflict my diet and lifestyle choice upon any living creature without its permisstion.

I really don't understand where people get their definition of hypocrite. Someone can stretch the boundary of reality until it snaps in order to box reasonable people into hypocrisy. Vegetarians are hypocritical because they still kill things! Tis better to try and still be a hypocrite than to throw your hands in the air because something as ridiculous as abstract philosophy makes not trying somehow elegant.

There is such a thing as real life, with real problems that demand real solutions. And these solutions, in the face of cosmic suffering, are often compromises... compromising with the devil reality does not make one a hypocrite. Fighting the pre-defeatd battle is not hypocrisy. I think this word is being abused for sport.

Further, I have not seen much in the way of vitriol directed at atheists. I made fun of a particular atheist in another thread because I saw his atheism as a kind of religion, a religion built upon the falso idol of simple logic. I haven't really read any theist condeming or slandering or otherwise persecuting an atheist on this board. I have seen the opposite, a sort of snide Marxist/Maoist "religions and their believers are like drugs and their abusers." The enthymeme of intolerance is enough to make one gag.

Really, liberalism is supposed to be founded on tolerance. Bigotry is the tool of the reactionary. Don't be a reactionary.

Eric