From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130716031229.GA65026@intma.in> References: <51E4719B.2010206@robinlea.com> <20130716031229.GA65026@intma.in> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 22:42:51 -0700 Message-ID: From: Skip Tavakkolian To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0118409ea89c7804e19a720b Subject: Re: [9fans] Moderator's Note: comp.os.plan9 Newsgroup. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6c328488-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --089e0118409ea89c7804e19a720b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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? > > --089e0118409ea89c7804e19a720b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
when discussing "good" and "evil", tho= ught experiment proofs are the only thing anyone can offer.=A0

I should=A0have prefaced what i said with: "if you insist on as= signing goodness or wickedness to things, then it follows that any large, a= ll encompassing ...".



On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Kurt H Maier <= ;khm-9@intma.in>= 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 i= s
> mostly good or mostly evil is a reflection of your belief about the na= ture
> of the universe.
>

this is what passes for proof these days?


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