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Nov 13, 2011 12:06

A moment of your time is all I ask, and in it, the answer to a question that has busied the minds of some of the world's greatest and consequently most idle thinkers. Your philosophical standing is not crucial here, merely answer by instinct.

Is it permissable to deliberately cause unhappiness, destitution or even death to the few, if the resulting ( Read more... )

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[Video] vw_coyote November 13 2011, 14:52:39 UTC

[Mercy is cooking and cleaning. It's a day off for her.]

Are you speaking in human terms or animal? In human terms, no. It's not. We take care of our sick and weak. In animal terms, yes, it'd be permissible. Even some human societies allow it.

Permatext dragonvariation November 13 2011, 14:59:44 UTC

Why one and not the other? What is the difference between humans and animals, as you perceive it?

Permavideo vw_coyote November 13 2011, 15:05:09 UTC

That is the difference. The compassion we show to those weaker than us and those that cannot care for themselves is the difference. Animals care only for the group, for the whole. Humans care about the individual.

dragonvariation November 13 2011, 15:11:02 UTC

And should that be the case? That we allow our compassion for the individual lead to self-destruction?

vw_coyote November 15 2011, 11:39:34 UTC

I don't think it leads to self destruction. Some of the greatest minds have had impaired bodies. Where would we be if we'd abandoned them for that? We would have lost some very important discoveries that have lead to the betterment of society as a whole.

dragonvariation November 15 2011, 17:11:04 UTC

Do you know when society makes its greatest advancements? It is in times of great hardship, not great luxury. Do you not think that society will stagnate?

vw_coyote November 15 2011, 22:04:26 UTC

I'm well aware of when society makes its greatest and most terrible advancements.

[She's not an idiot and actually does have a college degree in history.]

I think what you're forgetting, or choosing to ignore, is that society only stagnates when it refuses to look beyond itself. Rome, the Egyptians. Clinging to the past can teach lessons, but it can also paralyze.

dragonvariation November 17 2011, 17:35:50 UTC

I am neither forgetting, nor deliberately ignoring anything, only posing questions.

Do you think Rome stagnated? There is much of Ancient Rome that persists even now.

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