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Old February 23rd 17, 03:46 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:35:33 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 7:21:04 AM UTC-7, Chris L Peterson wrote:

On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 03:27:37 -0800 (PST), Gary Harnagel
wrote:

If you believe that, you are a genuinely scary person. I hope they
don't let you be around other people unsupervised.

I feel the same way about YOU because you have one less restraint on your
behavior than I do.


I have excellent restraint on my behavior- restraints that are
grounded in objective reason. You, on the other hand, are perhaps like
Abraham- willing to commit any crime if a voice in your head requires
it. That is scary.


The "voice in Abraham's head" also told him to stop.


A moral person wouldn't have let his god tell him to do something like
that in the first place. Of course, most of Abrahamic scripture is
about people doing awful stuff because they preferred to follow the
dictates of their god over their own, rational morality.

In any case, your ranting on about AGW when it has nothing to do with
my comments above simply reveals obsessive fixation on me or my ideas,
and makes you look pretty foolish here.


But an important point has been brought up that you refuse to address:
Why do you browbeat those who don't accept AGW when you believe humanity
is doomed anyway? That's the _real_ question that inquiring minds want
to know and that you are avoiding like the plague.


I don't discuss it because its irrelevant to the discussion. Do you
ever seek medical care? Do you bother to eat and drink? Why do you
bother to do these things when you're going to die anyway?

In this forum, I challenge those who don't believe in AGW because they
are factually wrong and making pseudoscientific claims in a science
forum. It has nothing to do with the survival of our species, and
everything to do with the problems created by the science denialism
and the inability to use reason and critical thinking.