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[quote=Anonymous]And does it really not trouble you that there is no such thing as perfect justice?  That the "bad" guys win 99.99...% of the time?  Please, I am NOT making any argument with this question!!!  I am just trying to get a direct response.[/quote]
Yes; of course it bothers me. The injustice and pain in the world bother everyone I respect, to the degree that we look at it. As it happens, injustice seems to bother me more than it does most. I'd be worried about someone who wasn't bothered by, say, images of starving children or hearing about someone wrongfully imprisoned for years.

[quote=Anonymous]If you are right, and I am wrong, most human beings live a life that is "nasty, brutish, and short."[/quote]
Huh? They're living the lives they're living regardless of whether there's a deity. Are you saying that the practical facts of their lives are different if there's a deity?

In any case, those are relative terms. Life is what it is. Some lives are nastier, shorter, and more brutish (and BTW, more solitary) than others. When Hobbs wrote that, he was comparing life in the state of nature to life in his time. Life in his time was nastier than life now. When you say it's nasty, to what are you comparing it?

[quote=Anonymous]What is it like to face that reality head on?[/quote]
The injustice? Sometimes it hurts quite a bit - fear, anger, bitterness. Most of that is just caused by my self-centered fear, though - it gets a lot better if I focus on helping someone else. From a global perspective, the injustice is strongly in my favor.

[quote=Anonymous]Are humans really just mammals, then?[/quote]
As far as I can tell. We seem to me to be the best at certain things, but cheetahs are just mammals too, even though they're the fastest.
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