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No -- anyone can ignore their conscience anytime and people do so frequently -- if you're religious, it's called "sin" and various religions have ways of being officially forgiven, like going to confession or asking god directly for forgiveness.

If you're not religious, it just wrong and the only way to make up for it is to try to make up to whomever you harmed[/quote]

Yes, I was really touched by Stalin's tribute to all the people he harmed, and the way he turned over a new leaf with all those public foot washings in Leningrad. I think Mao outdid him though, when he went volunteered in orphanages around the country.  :roll: [/quote]

Stalin and Mao were bad people -- lots of people have been bad, irrespective of religion.[/quote]

Way to miss the point, Einstein!

I assume, however, that you're being deliberately obtuse, because you have no good answer.

You remind me of my younger self, when I was maybe 12 or 13. Like you, I had recently discovered the debating strategies you use all the time, like deliberately missing the point and changing the subject. I used to think that this made me such a good debater! Now that I'm a grown-up, I see just how transparent these silly strategies really are (along with ad hominens and reductio ad absurdum). The only thing these strategies accomplish is to make it obvious that you have no good answers. Yes, you've apparently reminded several of us of pre-teens. You're only embarrassing yourself.[/quote]

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