(urth) What's So Great About Ushas?

[Paul B]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

> !!
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Come on, don't just "!!" me, explain -  I'm genuinely curious.

You are assuming that they are all random. What if you could cause them?
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> Or meteor strikes, directing large rocks at planets inhabited by one's
> enemies is well within human capability, which the other is not just yet.
>

 Sure, why not.  (Though I could've sworn you were referring to an act of
nature - an intentionally caused supernova a year would be a bit much)  But
if it's wilfully caused and results in death, you've got an ethical problem,
and then it is something to get worked up about.


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> I also differentiate between murder and homicide: all murder is homicide,
> not all homicide is murder.
>

Sure, that's why I (jokingly) mentioned manslaughter (less severe than
murder).  The severity may vary, but purposefully causing death of unwilling
souls is uniformly a bad thing.

Throughout this discussion I've tried to establish that it's still a bad
thing, even if done by time-traveling aliens from another dimension, and
even if it's done for a good cause.

I've been surprised by the resistance to this idea.
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