{"id":3945,"date":"2017-09-04T00:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T15:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2017-09-04T00:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T15:21:39","slug":"philosophical-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/philosophical-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does one fairly label people?<\/p>\n<p>Does a person become part of a group by saying they are part of a group or do they become part of the group by actually following the positions of the group? For example when does a person stop being part of the Conservative, Libertarian, Liberal, or [your pick ism]? Do we need to add adjectives to delineate between the groups?<\/p>\n<p>If say 10% of the group does terrible things can you say the whole group is like this? (Especially if the larger part of the group does not denounce them.) If say 10% is good can the whole group claim goodness?<\/p>\n<p>I like this story for death defying logic.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/atheist-minister-continues-fight-to-remain-ordained-in-united-church-of-canada-142493\/<\/p>\n<p>A minister of a church in Canada is an avowed atheist but still wants to pastor a church. I wonder if an avowed theist can be the head of an atheist group. I was on record telling Claire in a comment that if she voted for Hillary shouldn&#8217;t she resign from a Conservative web site. She never answered in writing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3945\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3945\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does one fairly label people?<\/p>\n<p>Does a person become part of a group by saying they are part of a group or do they become part of the group by actually following the positions of the group? For example when does a person stop being part of the Conservative, Libertarian, Liberal, or [your pick ism]? Do we need to add adjectives to delineate between the groups?<\/p>\n<p>If say 10% of the group does terrible things can you say the whole group is like this? (Especially if the larger part of the group does not denounce them.) If say 10% is good can the whole group claim goodness?<\/p>\n<p>I like this story for death defying logic.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/atheist-minister-continues-fight-to-remain-ordained-in-united-church-of-canada-142493\/<\/p>\n<p>A minister of a church in Canada is an avowed atheist &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/philosophical-questions\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-philosophical-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}