Tipping over

Discussion in 'Earth Science' started by Vkothii, Jun 21, 2008.

  1. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    But you just said that, if given the power, you would kill every man, woman, and child on earth. That is morally reprehensible, it is selfish, it is evil. Even Hitler only wanted to kill the Jews, you'd kill us all.
     
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  3. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Correct. But it's strictly hypothetical.
    Ever heard of sacrificing one for the good of the many ?
     
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  5. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    Sure, but you'd sacrifice everyone for no one!
    So it's only your lack of power that preventa you from committing the greatest atrocity ever imagined? And you think using an emoticon with a smiley face mitigates the immorality of such a desire?
     
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  7. draqon Banned Banned

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    Enmos...we humans see you as a threat to us...we are the supreme rulers of this universe, your ambitions are against our desires...
     
  8. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Huh ? :bugeye:

    I notice you are getting emotional.. ?
    Maybe I can't do when it really comes to it.
    I would happily embrace any scenario that avoids removing humans.

    Necessary evil ?
     
  9. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    As simply correcting this, including linking to the correct figures etc, has proven fruitless, we must continue to swat it on each individual appearance.

    According to the people who measure such things, a little less than 40% of the CO2 in the air over your head at the moment was generated by fossil fuel combustion.
     
  10. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    And ? They are not my desires.
     
  11. ashura the Old Right Registered Senior Member

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    Typical ignorant response.
     
  12. draqon Banned Banned

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    Typical rhetorical remark.
     
  13. ashura the Old Right Registered Senior Member

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    Typical draqon.

    Enmos: What I think is so disturbing to the rest of us is where you're placing your priorities. Generally speaking, it's humans first, everything else later. ie. if you had to choose between saving every animal within 10 acres of a forest and saving a human, which would you do?
     
  14. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    What if 'humans first' means death to all, including humans ?
    Wouldn't it then make sense to save 'everything else' ?

    Isolated event ? Saving the human.
    Not saving the human would have no impact whatsoever.
     
  15. draqon Banned Banned

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    Enmos if you had 100 baby mice and one human...but could only save either 100 mice or one human...who would you save?
     
  16. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Same answer as above. It's all or nothing.. well almost all would suffice I think.
     
  17. draqon Banned Banned

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    so does that mean you would let 100 baby mice to die? just because of one human? :bugeye:
     
  18. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Yes, with pain in my heart.. but yes.
     
  19. ashura the Old Right Registered Senior Member

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    No, or at least not in my view. Even after we're gone, it's not like life won't exist on the planet.
     
  20. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    But at current pace all ecosystems would be utterly destroyed.
    There just too many humans, we are already in the midst of a mass extinction.
     
  21. draqon Banned Banned

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    There is always SPACE!

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  22. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Maybe it would be more 'acceptable' if you view it like this:

    Would you die for your loved one if you knew it would save her ?
     
  23. draqon Banned Banned

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    you answer that.
     

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