How about a nihilist vs. a spiritualist? I won't use human vs. human crime as my example, so let's say each one was swimming at the beach, and was attacked by sharks.
Well, the human on human crime would be better, cause one would be more likely to be at ease acknowledging that they are about to die by nature's hands. I won't add details, but just imagine each one of them dying by being a victim of crime, the point being the added facet of not having control of your own death or having died for no good reason, leaving socio-economical reasons out of it as well.
Will the nihilist not give a damn, because to them nothing matters anyways? Will the atheist think, "oh well, dust to dust"? Of course the spiritual one believes there is an afterlife.
Does the human factor (feelings/emotions/whatever) play into it all on exactly the same level? Does, or can, a nihilist's or atheist's conviction, ever equal or surmount a spiritualist's devotion?
2007-05-06
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