dimreepr

No it's not, it depends on your culture. In some cultures it's an imperative to share, whatever you have, with a stranger in need; it's quite telling that those culture's tend to be poor. Pulling up the drawbridge, just puts 'you' under siege. That's the "all life matters" argument, IOW just an excuse to carry on regardless. That's not a solution, it's an excuse to wash your hands and pull up the drawbridge.

Justice is seldom served when the prosecution has too much to lose... That depends on which side of the cutlery you are... If your bias is weighted by your desire to protect you and yours, then justice is just a cloud of need's and want's; our culture is what balances 'our' desire, for good and bad (it's a yin-yang thang). 😉 Guess who gets to set the parameters of the brief? Jeez 🙄

It's easy when you think about it, science/philosophy point's at the path, it's up to you too walk it...

Interesting, you're happy to go even further OT to get in a cheap shot (so easy are divisions made a chasm), and chastise me about something I haven't done, because when applied to Putin and this war and its reason's, my post's are, strangely relevant; for instance, look at the timing of the start of this war, if China hadn't given him a "lil green 1" the war would never have started. Much like if the mods had come down on my side from the start of "this", the number of "lil green 1"'s would be stacked in my favour (please think carefully about that before you dismiss it).

For me it means, a paradox can't exist; for Turing, the machine will inevitably surpass us, as with 'Watson' or whatever the 'go' winner was called. What we can't say is, that behaviour is wrong...

You think you can dismiss 6 pages of, mostly, well considered reactions to the developing thread, without reading it, is just arrogant nonsense; it's like reading the synopsis of 'war and peace' and saying "it was him". Please read the thread, before your next reply... 🙏

No, not all and that's the point; so, maybe you turn a blind eye to the squatter in your second home, it's not like it's your favourite and they're already suffering... From not having an ax to weild...

Maybe you should read the thread, before you, wrongly, reduce it to nensense... 😉

It was meant to make you think about the privilege you have and where it comes from; for instance, I'm guessing, from your profile and posting history, that you're a homeowner; who did you buy it off since property is theft. If you go back far enough, the original owner was an ax wielding maniac who planted a flag in the mud and said "this is my bit", and planted the ax between the eye's of any decenter. And if you're lucky enough to have a second home, that a squatter has planted his flag in, you'll be the first to reach for the metaphorical ax. FTFY

What is a true Scotsman? Turin also asked, how could we tell? The machine he predicted is general AI, AI as we know it, is a 'potential' baby GAI, or as the late great Douglas Adams would say "42"

Ye, mea culpa, sorry about that, I was bored (if truth be told); but OTOH it does kinda illustrate the sort of trivia that can start war's. This one included...

I was going to let this, less than gracious concession, go; but then your friend gave it a lil green 1, and I'm WTF. The implication seems to be, I'll say this to placate the fool; who asks questions I can't answer... So my question to your like happy friend is, what's up with that/please explain yourself?

Not what I said. "Seems only fair that you, at least, share some of that privilege". Something like, you suffer a slight inconvenience in your level of comfort, so that the current victims of said crime, suffer a little less. By crime I mean pretty much any/every crime committed by, or on behalf of, a head of state, in the last 4,000 year's. The moral definition of criminal is nebulous, it depends on how much you want need it; and how many convincing excuses you can come up with, that show why your want is actually a need... 😉

Doctor Who knows how to taste for it, but then it gets all wibbly-wobbly...

That depends, are you benefitting from that crime while the victim's are still suffering? Seems only fair that you, at least, share some of that privilege. Nazi crimes were committed because, the then modern Germans felt they were entitled to the proceeds of their dad's crime.

Yes, don't you get your own? I asked a legitimate question, in both metaphore-ia and reality; IOW how are you going to kill Putin? You don't really kill a virus, you keep on defending untill it runs out of ammo. Not sure what your friend was giving you lil green 1's for... 🙄

Can you kill a virus?

As well as, what?

The bright side of being sick, is when it stops. 😉

Do you actually believe what you've written in this thread? I can understand the excuse, if you were in Putin's pocket, but what do you have to gain from vomiting up this bullshit; I hate being sick at the best of times, but if it tasted of shit as well, then I gots to get paid... 🤢 🤑

Really? I hate purple, but I love Prince... 😉 I love you too, man; but green is my favourite colour...

Intellect, as an answer is akin to me banging my head against a wall: You> A car is not the correct way to travel. Me> What is? You> A van. 😣 BTW thank you for correcting my joke, thus rendering it not funny... 🙄

No one deserves an easy life. You haven't discovered anything yet; forgive them and feel the peace instead. A little humility often helps to see the path; much like carrot's help you see in the dark... 😉

Agreed, Not sure I do, what measurement do you mean? Logical, emotional, mathematical, philosophical, dancing queen/ical etc. His IQ could have been 42, the universal constant, that the mice would never need to know.

No, it doesn't matter; but as Feynman would have said "it is interesting". 😉