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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1307097" data-attributes="member: 5100">Agreed.  Ranting about FR vs GH or how much TWF Rangers suck is all fine (and fun, IMHO), but certain topics (politics & religion, esp) should either be discussed rationally, or not at all.  Having a degree in Political Science and a minor in Philosophy, I love a good discussion quite a bit, but they are hard to find.  Let us not ruin this one by crossing the line. Anyway, my thoughts on the matter: Good is stronger than evil, but it is harder to do.  Good involves the contradictory ideas of 1) submitting to a force/philosophy/idea that is larger than yourself and, 2) recognizing each person's individuality and free will. Good requires the submission because you must consider people outside yourself.  Some religions may include submitting to a deity or accepting that said deity may be wiser than you are, too, but that's over the line and not required for my point. By placing your focus on other people and granting them value/respect, you must confir onto their opinions and beliefs some respect as well.  That means you must respect them enough to let them be something other than good.  Things like the Inquisition did not follow this principle and were not good (not that "Inquisition != Good" is a revelation to anyone). IMHO, this is where a lot of people who believe themselves to be good err.  They try to prove how good they are by prejudising, in some form, against those they consider less good (I hesitate to say evil).  This is especially noticible in religions because every religion that I'm familiar with claims that their deity(s) are "good".  *large snippage to avoid thread closure*</blockquote>

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