The Dread Slender Gnome on Nostr: If you set up a premise, where "god told me to do it" means "the person looked ...
If you set up a premise, where "god told me to do it" means "the person looked wrong", then yes, it would be a reasonable conclusion. Or even if your premise is something a lot more vague, like "sincere belief that god told them to does not exist as a murder motive".
It's not reasonable if you're looking at it from outside of the premise, but if you first adopt that premise and then operate within it, it is internally consistent.
It's still stupid and insane, of course. But it's internally consistent.
It's not reasonable if you're looking at it from outside of the premise, but if you first adopt that premise and then operate within it, it is internally consistent.
It's still stupid and insane, of course. But it's internally consistent.