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There's a phenomenon called weakness of will in which a person knows what the right thing to do is, but does something worse instead. Someone may know it's not right to steal but steal anyway because they don't care about the rules. If you were to add a penalty to not following the rules, then maybe...

I think to live without morality would be a burden as you cause others to become upset at you if you do them wrong and you wouldn't feel good about yourself by doing wrong.

I'm just posting this to get some feedback on it. It's something I've been thinking about recently. It's this: Are successful people just people who force themselves to be successful while unsuccessful people are people who don't force themselves? If so, I find it unlikely that every successful pers...

I like to subject my views to skepticism and am still working the kinks out of this. In the beginning there was infinite potential. This infinite potential was God. God became aware of itself but could not experience itself because it was infinite and things can only exist in a finite form (after al...