Reply To: Theological Conundrum (read at your own risk)

Avram:

Yes, though you seem bent on reframing my broader definition of benefit to personal benefit.

I am reframing it because if it is not personal then there is no reason to do it.

Ok, so why would you go against your purpose?

Any number of reasons. E.g. you like money so you want to steal. Or you are jealous of someone so you want to kill him. Etc. Etc. Note that my point is not so much that there should be nothing stopping you from killing or stealing inasmuch as it is that you shouldn’t think that you’re a good person for giving up the stealing and killing, since you are only giving it up because you are getting something even better.

How does that follow?

If there is no reason why you should fulfill our purpose then it follows that there is no problem if you don’t fulfill it.