Every belief system has to account for war, conflict, and oppression.
By
Jim Ley
on March 08, 2007
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A belief system could deny the existence of such. It would probably be very wrong in doing so, but there's no compulsion.
Art: Is there a belief system that does not account for war, conflict, and oppression?
I can't think of one off hand. This fact has no relationship to the requirement that all system of beliefs must do anything at all.
Art:
Would the claim have read better if "has to account" read, "accounts"?
Several philosophical schools deny the existence of reality- some believe life is a dream or illusion etc. I suppose these belief systems would deny the existence of war, conflict and oppression along with everything else.
Todd:
Is there a commonly understand label attached to those philosophical schools that deny the existence of reality?
In other words, what are those schools called?
I think the claim would be different with "accounts" instead of "has to account", but I would still disagree. Unless you define a "belief system" as something that must account for everything, including things that the belief system may be unaware of or deny the existence of.