<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, <<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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!!</div></blockquote><div> </div><div class="Ih2E3d">Come on, don't just "!!" me, explain - I'm genuinely curious.<br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You are assuming that they are all random. What if you could cause them?<br>
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Or meteor strikes, directing large rocks at planets inhabited by one's<br>
enemies is well within human capability, which the other is not just yet.<br></blockquote><div><br> 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.<br>
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I also differentiate between murder and homicide: all murder is homicide,<br>
not all homicide is murder.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>I've been surprised by the resistance to this idea.<br>
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