How to fight crime.

[Leshma]

God doesn't exist. It's an image of what we humans would like to achieve. Devil is representation of our weaknesses.

Edit: I'm a human, after all. Shouldn't refer to humanity as "them".

[Butan]

God doesn't exist. It's an image of what we humans would like to achieve. Devil is representation of our weaknesses.

Edit: I'm a human, after all. Shouldn't refer to humanity as "them".

Begone, devil!

[Xant]

God doesn't exist. It's an image of what we humans would like to achieve. Devil is representation of our weaknesses.

Edit: I'm a human, after all. Shouldn't refer to humanity as "them".

What do you mean by "would like to achieve"? God as he is written in the Bible (especially the Old Testament) is one magnificently fucked up fellow and I'm pretty sure no one (not already religious) would actually confess to him being their idea of a perfect end-state.

[Nightmare798]

Come on that cop was a hero, everyone knows stuff is more valuable than human life.

stuff IS indeed more valuable than a life of a criminal scumbag.

[Bjord]

Oh look, the discussion devolved into religious debate.

Is there something similar to Godwin's Law that instead refers to the inevitability of religious analogies in relation to a thread's longevity?

[Vibe]

god was made up as a means to control the sheeple

[Kafein]

Oh look, the discussion devolved into religious debate.

Is there something similar to Godwin's Law that instead refers to the inevitability of religious analogies in relation to a thread's longevity?

The probability of anything being said in a given thread tends to one as the thread increases in length. But the probability of someone referring to a similar principle for a given subset of things to say like you just did tends to one faster.

[Leshma]

god was made up as a means to control the sheeple

I disagree. Discovering God was essential part of our evolution, at some point that was the best way to spread certain values among humanity, values that are essential to our progress as a society. Now we have evolved enough and we don't need God anymore. But those "good" values must stay and keep spreading among people.

[Bjord]

The probability of anything being said in a given thread tends to one as the thread increases in length. But the probability of someone referring to a similar principle for a given subset of things to say like you just did tends to one faster.

There's been plenty of threads that has devolved into political, religious or otherwise controversial discussions in threads where they didn't belong. I have yet to see anyone state Godwin's Law in those threads.

Also FYI, the parameters for Godwin's Law has already been met previously in this thread.

Most recent example, excluding this one, is Panos' thread in us gentlemen's board, which turned into a rude exchange about nationalism and xenophobia.

[Vibe]

I disagree. Discovering God was essential part of our evolution, at some point that was the best way to spread certain values among humanity, values that are essential to our progress as a society. Now we have evolved enough and we don't need God anymore. But those "good" values must stay and keep spreading among people.

While a bit nicer phrased, you basically said the same thing. The sheeple didn't know how to behave, so to say - thus they needed a set of rules/principles/values they should follow - they used the unexplained of the world to give power to an imaginary person, whom they used to introduce those rules. Now some were good for the people and some were good for manipulating them into wars, giving money or other acts that benefited the higher classes more than them.

[Bjord]

The Romans used slaves, the Pope used sheeple, now we use Chinese and Indians.

[Vibe]

The Romans used slaves, the Pope used sheeple, now we use Chinese and Indians.

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[Bjord]

I said that, not Kafein.

[Xant]

No you didn't, Kafein did.

[Bjord]

Xant, I like you too, but I think we need some space from each other. It's not me, it's you.