As someone who’s also glad, the falsehood that we get what we deserve after we die is a very harmful one.
Justice doesn’t come naturally or in some fairy tale afterlife. Justice came to Brian because someone else saw to it that it did.
The world would be a better place if people weren’t deluded into believing the universe or some imagined deity will make things fair. It’s a very pretty lie, but it has equally ugly consequences.
If we want a just world, we need to make one. It won’t be handled off screen for us. This life is all we get.
As someone who’s also glad, the falsehood that we get what we deserve after we die is a very harmful one.
Justice doesn’t come naturally or in some fairy tale afterlife. Justice came to Brian because someone else saw to it that it did.
The world would be a better place if people weren’t deluded into believing the universe or some imagined deity will make things fair. It’s a very pretty lie, but it has equally ugly consequences.
If we want a just world, we need to make one. It won’t be handled off screen for us. This life is all we get.