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The Bounds of Belief
Jan. 24th, 2021 03:48 amOriginally posted in response to a post about how to be religious while being LGBTQ.
This looks like a good way to not be a person who thinks it’s good to hurt yourself. My way of thinking about morality is heavily focused on how not to be a person who thinks it’s good to hurt other people. Those aren’t always the same thing. If you can rewrite or reenvision your religion such that it’s okay to be you, that’s certainly better than the alternative. But what if there’s some other person, different from you, who you can’t legitimize while staying within the bounds of your religion? I’m afraid that leads to condemning that person for things that people outside your religion would recognize as harmless.
For maximum “I’m going to regret posting this”: I also get this vibe sometimes when multiples talk about mysticism and how they incorporate multiplicity into their view of metaphysics. They take a lot of precautions against becoming a victim of something like the FF7 house. They don’t always seem like they include precautions against becoming the leader of the FF7 house.
This looks like a good way to not be a person who thinks it’s good to hurt yourself. My way of thinking about morality is heavily focused on how not to be a person who thinks it’s good to hurt other people. Those aren’t always the same thing. If you can rewrite or reenvision your religion such that it’s okay to be you, that’s certainly better than the alternative. But what if there’s some other person, different from you, who you can’t legitimize while staying within the bounds of your religion? I’m afraid that leads to condemning that person for things that people outside your religion would recognize as harmless.
For maximum “I’m going to regret posting this”: I also get this vibe sometimes when multiples talk about mysticism and how they incorporate multiplicity into their view of metaphysics. They take a lot of precautions against becoming a victim of something like the FF7 house. They don’t always seem like they include precautions against becoming the leader of the FF7 house.
