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| Topic | Are formerly racist people worse than people that were never racist? |
| adjl 02/03/21 3:10:09 PM #11: | Mead posted... Really though deciding which people are better/worse than others isnt really the best mindset to have in life Pretty much. There's a lot wrong with Catholicism, but one of the bits of its doctrine I do like is the idea that we should leave judging people on that sort of scale up to God and limit ourselves to smaller, more practically-focused judgements. That falls apart a bit without a belief in a God, but really, the existence of a heaven/hell is a prerequisite for such broader judgements to have any value in the first place. Judging people meaningfully simply entails considering how they can be expected to behave now, and treating them accordingly. Somebody with a history of bad behaviour (such as racism) may be harder to trust now, but that's the only weight that history should carry. Tallying it up into any sort of "good person score" is really just silly, and more often than not will just result in treating somebody poorly who has repented sufficiently that distrusting them isn't reasonable. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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