Sunday 19 March 2017

Principles, Preached or Practical

How do practical, logical, objective, calculated decisions compare to preached, religious moral, principles?

I’ve come to the perceived idea that they are almost equivalent in result and effect from a general point of view. The general principles of religion tend to be aligned with rational and logical decision making from my experience. It depends on your interpretation of religious principles, but I’m basing this theory on a lot of what I’ve learned about general Christian principles formed by following the Bible.

The basic general principles based off of the Bible could be summarised as treat others kindly –as you would want to be treated. From this, many scenarios with many variables can be handled. The same scenarios and factors of variables would be handled the same way if the method of action was led by logical calculation. A Christian would tell the truth despite the chance to gain something, just as a robot programmed to make logical calculated decisions likely would. It would theoretically calculate the requirements of a presumably equivalent being, to be equivalent, and therefore no reason to alter the possession of a positive element, from 1 being to another of equivalent value. This general perspective of equation evaluation can be applied to many scenarios and circumstances of variables, just like the basic moral of Christianity. This equationalistic view is the extreme of objective decision making, and therefore likely a good comparison –as comparing the most extreme of 2 terms is likely to show the most extreme differences. Taking either of these basic generalised principles, the result will theoretically be the same when applied to many life discrepancies. Examples which I have analysed would be; contribution, judgement, pride and honesty.


In any case, it seems principles of logical practicality are in essence, the same as principles of religious preaching.

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