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19 years ago 09/21/2004 9:47pm EDT

re: Genetics

Considering your stuffed even if you try to save the species I'll go along with an all-time list that is interesting. Don't know if I can top the battle of Hittler, Jesus, Buddha et al (that was funny shit)

Malcom X

The Guy who founded KKK

Michael Jackson

Chairman Mao

George W Bush

Friction everywhere there. KKK Man would not get along with X or Mao, certainly would with Bush, possibly with Jackson as he changed the colour of his skin.

X would detest all. Jackson would be trying to molest all of them. George W would launch a pre-emptive strike on Mao and Jackson (he don't want his ass terrorised). George W would form a "coalition of the willing" and take out the threat of Malcom X. He would do this even if he likes black folk, because he wouldn't be able to make the decision for himself and would do whatever his KKK friend told him to do.

19 years ago 09/21/2004 9:57pm EDT

re: Important Choices

Important Choices wrote:
Here is one (probably not what you are looking for)
You are in a group of four people. You are underwater caving (ie entering caves from underwater). Your group passes through a narrow crevice. When the tide rises the group decides that it is time to leave and the cave will sooon flood. The first member of the group to enter the crevice becomes stuck (they are overweight and only just managed to get through the first time, not a necessary condition for part one or two of problem). The party has a knife. There is no way of removing the person from the crevice alive.
a) What do you do?
b) What do you do, considering that your party are the only people left on Earth?
c) What do you do if you had warned the overweight person not to go through the crevice first for the risk of blocking it?
d) Part c) but your party are the only people on Earth.

I don't know if you can justify murdering the guy blocking the gap in the first case, even if it is for self survival. But if humanity was doomed if you didn't I guess it would be acceptable.

Part c) and d). I'd be mighty pissed at the fat guy for blocking the gap. If he did it delibrately you could say that killing him was self defence.

19 years ago 09/21/2004 10:04pm EDT

re: Interesting Q

Aquinas had a principle called The Principle of Double Effect. I can't remember the details but it stated that it was permissable to do a moral wrong if it was the result of a good action. There were four criteria that had to be fulfilled. I think it is something like you didn't intend the negative outcome, that the negative outcome followed directly from the positive intention and two others that I can't remember.

Under his principle it is morally acceptable to bomb countries. eg it is morally acceptable to bomb a weapons factory even if civilians are killed, as long as you were only trying to bomb the weapons factory and didn't intend to kill civilians.

In this problem (the underwater caving one) it is not acceptable to kill the man blocking the gap under any of the circumstances. Even if your intention is to save humanity you cannot willfully kill someone to do it. It is a slippery slope. If it is ok to kill one man to save humanity, why not two or 1000 or a million.

19 years ago 01/01/2005 1:01am EST

re: Important Choice

You probably want two males and four females, if not all offspring are going to have same male genetics (if he happens to have an recessive characteristics that are fatal then your society is f***ed). Allows you to still have largish population and don't run into probs till 3rd gen

Females are A,B,C,D

Males are Y,Z

When Female letter stated first then child is female. Linerage is bracketed.

Allow the following in these generations:

1st Generation

females AY, BY, CY, DY, AZ, BZ, CZ, DZ

males YA, YB, YC, YD, ZA, ZB , ZC, ZD

2nd Generation

females (AY)Z, (BY)Z, (CY)Z, (DY)Z, (AZ)Y, (BZ)Y, (CZ)Y, (DZ)Y, (AY)(ZB), (AY)(ZC), (AY)(ZD) etc

3rd Generation (Allow mating accross generations)

Allow only mating that shares one male bit in common (don't allow duplication of female bits) eg

((AY)Z)Y , ((AY)Z)((BZ)Y))

ie similar to grandfather doing granddaughter (prob not good idea) or (2nd cousins f***ing each other - not a prob, but not a good way to make a society).

If there were an extra male (perhaps if the pregnant woman in the beginning had a boy as child, it would have different male side. Then you don't allow him to f*** until the 3rd generation, thereby adding some diversity into the population.

Your doomed whatever you do.

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