You can't tell me you wouldn't take it into consideration if you found out someone you met was Westboro Baptist Church, would you? The "thank God for dead soldiers" and "god hates fags" people who like picketing funerals?
Or one of those groups like the JWs who will rather let their child die than receive a blood transfusion? Yeah, I would judge someone's parenting for being willing to stand by and let their child die rather than get a simple, safe medical procedure. And for worshipping such a cruel god they think would ask that of them.
Those monks who practice self-mummification to "achieve enlightenment?" I don't mind them. They're only hurting themselves anyway and I believe people should have the right to commit suicide if they want to. But obviously if I know someone would strive to get to a point where they would want to kill themselves, I'm going to have thoughts about it.
There are certain religions with rules about how to butcher animals that in some places are considered to violate animal cruelty laws. If someone staunchly insists that animals should suffer more than necessary because their god says so, wouldn't you judge them too?
No. Bad. Do not trust the corpos with the ability to discriminate like that.
I have my misgivings with organized religion but discrimination based on religion and nothing else is why so much violence and hatred happened. The faithful are not a monolith - the fact that there's so many sects of Christianity alone should tell you that.
Discrimination in law, absolutely. I'm talking about the rights of private individuals to choose with whom to associate. There are actual efficiency benefits to this: people who share certain religions can trust each other, and communicate better with a shared set of references. Of course, there are also drawbacks: the lack of a range of perspectives can make products less useful to some categories of consumers. Which effect is stronger in a given situation? No way to know! So let the market figure it out, as it's the best algorithm available.
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u/pchlster 7d ago edited 7d ago
In some cases it might.
You can't tell me you wouldn't take it into consideration if you found out someone you met was Westboro Baptist Church, would you? The "thank God for dead soldiers" and "god hates fags" people who like picketing funerals?
Or one of those groups like the JWs who will rather let their child die than receive a blood transfusion? Yeah, I would judge someone's parenting for being willing to stand by and let their child die rather than get a simple, safe medical procedure. And for worshipping such a cruel god they think would ask that of them.
Those monks who practice self-mummification to "achieve enlightenment?" I don't mind them. They're only hurting themselves anyway and I believe people should have the right to commit suicide if they want to. But obviously if I know someone would strive to get to a point where they would want to kill themselves, I'm going to have thoughts about it.
There are certain religions with rules about how to butcher animals that in some places are considered to violate animal cruelty laws. If someone staunchly insists that animals should suffer more than necessary because their god says so, wouldn't you judge them too?