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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Why does everyone forget that bit? I mean, and I'm not talking about internet chit chat here, why do people go along judging anyway? Is it just hubris? They're so sure that they're right in what they do that their own judgement doesn't bother them?
I need to be drunk for this conversation. This sounds like a great drunken philosophical conversation coming up here.
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Well, there's some amount of sincere belief that you have an obligation to admonish sinners as a spiritual act of mercy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_works_of_mercy, but even then, I think it's supposed to be more of a "hey, did you know that it's sinful to do that, so quit it" rather than "nah nah nah we're better than you."
About being drunk for some conversations: I got a random email from a former student asking me what I thought of copyright in the digital age basically, and I asked him why he asked. His response was that he and his college friends were having drunken debate about it. I'm a complete nerd, but even I didn't waste my college late night conversation on copyright. Kids these days.