A murderer is evil. What difference does it make how many? That's just degrees. There's no OK number
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 14/11/2009 07:22:47 AM
I don't care that the same label "murderer" is applied to both cases. Killing two people causes more hurt than killing only one.
Morality is a sticky issue, see Phillipa Foot's famous trolley problem. Too tired to post more.
Morality is a sticky issue, see Phillipa Foot's famous trolley problem. Too tired to post more.
That's a bunch of crap. You don't flip the switch, because YOU are not responsible for the deaths of the accident, and you do not have the right to take the man's life when you have no reason to believe he is. Saving lives does not justify taking them, unless those lives are causing the deaths. If you were on the trolley, you'd have a right to flip the switch, but not in the presented scenario. And in the alternative of pushing a guy in front of the trolley - also unacceptable and for the same reason.
Cannoli
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
Rand is NOT evil in tGS, nor does he do any evil
- 14/11/2009 12:26:27 AM
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That is nonsense...
- 14/11/2009 12:47:22 AM
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Re: That is nonsense...
- 14/11/2009 05:30:01 AM
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So what?
- 14/11/2009 09:28:49 AM
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Sorry... gotta disagree.
- 14/11/2009 01:09:30 AM
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Re: Sorry... gotta disagree.
- 14/11/2009 03:49:49 AM
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I disagree with prety much everything
- 14/11/2009 03:10:12 AM
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Wouldn't the Chaos Graendal was causing in Arad Doman be greater than the chaos Rand caused?
- 14/11/2009 04:11:48 AM
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nothing Graendal did almost caused the Pattern to collapse *NM*
- 14/11/2009 05:59:21 AM
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The chaos the Forsaken are causing is causing the world to collapse and the DO to get stronger
- 14/11/2009 07:48:05 AM
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Re: I disagree with prety much everything
- 14/11/2009 05:45:14 AM
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Why in the world is quantity irrelevant?
- 14/11/2009 06:01:13 AM
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A murderer is evil. What difference does it make how many? That's just degrees. There's no OK number
- 14/11/2009 07:22:47 AM
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Ok, let's take this a step further
- 14/11/2009 09:45:50 PM
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Rand has not yet crossed the moral event horizon of no return,
- 14/11/2009 03:27:22 AM
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Then he already passed the horizon by your reckoning. He DID choose to do those things.
- 14/11/2009 07:45:46 AM
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Then maybe we just have different standards.
- 14/11/2009 11:56:02 AM
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Why do you keep bringing up genocide? Rand was not doing that.
- 15/11/2009 01:02:23 AM
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To me, the Rules of War is nothing but a contract between parties.
- 15/11/2009 08:39:55 PM
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It's too late in the game to worry about followers. He has no further political agenda *NM*
- 19/11/2009 01:01:04 AM
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What Rand did that was evil.
- 14/11/2009 04:06:17 AM
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I don't see Arad Doman
- 14/11/2009 04:57:20 AM
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