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Originally Posted by Coola Yagami
I do agree. If we ever remove all religion and kill the concept of there being a hell awaiting sinners, it's gonna go full on Purge worldwide.
For literally billions upon billions of people out there, regardless of beliefs, it's the fear of whatever version of hell they believe in that stops them from commiting true evil.
In terms of people in authority looking over you and laws keeping people in check, look all the soldiers raping women in third world countries. These people might never ever do something like that when they're living in America as regular joes, but I'm sure they're thinking to themselves 'I'm in some jungle in some third world country in the middle of nowhere, who the **** is ever gonna know?'
Note, I am in no way condoning rape, of course not, I'm just saying that might explain why rape is common in those situations, because 'who will ever know?' the fear of 'Somebody watching you' is removed.
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Which reminds me that "Casualties of War" starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn is a very good movie. Although not one to watch if you want to be in a particularly sunny mood for the rest of your day.
But yeah, relevant to what you said because the stuff in that movie is based on actual historical events, which ultimately came about for exactly that reason: "Who even gives a sh*t?" That's the kind of stuff people do when the threat of consequence is removed. Thankfully, in that one case the perpetrators DID suffer consequences, but only because One Guy had a strong enough conscience to risk literally everything to see justice done. MOST people would've just looked the other way... or joined in.
Human decency generally evaporates, and sociopathic tendencies kick in, the very second a person realizes that "God" isn't paying any attention.
"Everybody's acting like we can do anything, and it don't matter what we do! ...Well maybe we ought'a be extra careful, because maybe it matters more than we even know."
Seriously, watch that movie if you never have. Just, y'know, expect it to be reasonably depressing and bleak. It's a great flick, though.