Sometimes moral judgement is cast on the past because the trauma still lingers in the present. Freud taught us that the cause of suffering had to at least be identified before the healing could begin.
Couldn't agree more! Wes' style is best served when interacting with his students. I've always preferred his live recordings far and above his private recordings.
History doesn't seem to impact the future. It's us who do, and I don't like the idea of morals attaching their grubby tendrils to universally condemn something of history.
The contagion heuristic is a psychological heuristic which follows the law of contagion and the law of similarity, leading people to avoid contact with people or objects viewed as "contaminated" by previous contact with someone or something viewed as bad-or, less often, to seek contact with objects that have been in contact with people or things considered good. That’s why all the weirdness with history.
Not all journalism in each country is done the same way, america has a problem with deliberately sensationalizing news; "opinion journalism" sounds like the worst method of teaching and informing people on facts I've ever seen short of just flat lying, it's pretty much the same thing lol.
Lust, Gluttony, and Sloth don't seem to me like real sins. I'd say that Greed is reasonably a sin, at extremes it can lead to pointlessly hoarding, from rubbish to expensive stuff that's then never used. However liking having stuff isn't a sin. lets replace those three with: vindictiveness resentment anger excessive dissatisfaction causing distress smugness/glee at others misfortune bullying pointless hoarding gaslighting abuse malice extreme levels of anti-social behaviour murder vandalism cheapness ("I know it helps others and it's also costs £0, but what's in it for me?") having only one value small mindedness lying about your opinions to alienate others "everything that isn't mandatory is illegal"
One i made up is "correct/accurate definitions" or education, maybe the spectrum is in between clearambiguous meaning; the more accurate something is, the more useful and utility it has. Something theology is bad at but tries its best to be intelligent about (with categories like sin, or any spiritual word) but can't quite get there (because it doesn't have enough correct understanding or correspondence with physical reality like eg. Psychology, which has way better utility with these categories). Which is why the more we learned and understood properly/accurately naturally turned into a new category called Science. And look at what the accuracy of correct ideas and definitions has created and can maintain now. What do you call this?
Actually there is hierarchy between the sins as is with virtues. You could say pride is considered the primary sin (in the context of the 7 deadly) from which all else are sourced out of. Also there are different levels of punishment and different levels of gratification in theology from what I know.
