From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <51E4719B.2010206@robinlea.com> <20130716031229.GA65026@intma.in> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:29:05 +0200 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Moderator's Note: comp.os.plan9 Newsgroup. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6c382622-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 You guys does not take the End-user into account at all. On 7/16/13, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > when discussing "good" and "evil", thought experiment proofs are the only > thing anyone can offer. > > I should have prefaced what i said with: "if you insist on assigning > goodness or wickedness to things, then it follows that any large, all > encompassing ...". > > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:07:38PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >> > the nature of any large, all encompassing thing is to be good and evil >> all >> > at the same time. proof: imagine a company (Google, Microsoft, Oracle, >> GE, >> > etc.) that spans the universe. your perception of whether that thing is >> > mostly good or mostly evil is a reflection of your belief about the >> nature >> > of the universe. >> > >> >> this is what passes for proof these days? >> >> >