dimreepr

My point is, not everyone is capable of thinking beyond their teachers and if they're relatively content with their place in society, then they're quite happy to believe the truth of what they've been taught. Even in science, we're almost forced to believe in the teachers simply bc we aren't capable of judging a PhD paper, well 99% of us aren't and we're quite happy to so for similar reasons. Not every PhD is capable of teaching their ideas to those below their level of understanding.

The other side of that coin is, not everyone is capable of understanding why or who we should or shouldn't trust? I don't have a PhD, do you? The great thing about putting your trust in someone is, you have faith in them without question; I just question that authority bc I want to see the ugly, before I decide...

The truth can be ugly, whatever you have faith in; sometimes it's easier to believe what you're told by everyone you trust.

I'm not suggesting that we stop treating people against disease or that we stop cleaning the food prep area. I'm just pondering the possible cost bc the fundamental reality of life is, it's always a compromise; or to put it another way, there is no utopia.

But we should, at least, take them into consideration since we don't know everything...

What better way to start a war, than to point the finger at those that have no authority or political expression???

I'm not the best at explaing myself, as this thread attests. What got me pondering on this question is the thought that, does vaccination give us the illusion of herd immunity, when in fact it gives us herd susceptability, as in a monoculture? It's been suggested that our (weathy nation's) insistance on cleaning to the point of sterility, whilst being essential in an operating theater, may have created an epidemic of allergies. It was never about a dystopic future, it's more about the rich nation's hobbling themselves, whilst the poor nation's naturally evolve past us into a brief facsimile of a utopic flyby.

Why not?

Every ying has it's yang...

No it doesn't, if I attack you, then we're at war; or at least in a fight...

My apologies, it was an attempt to show how AI couldn't be an intellect.

it's not, it's a moral imperative that could lead to our deaths as in "the war of the worlds". The ethical question is, how do we avoid the problems a moral imperative presents?

It's so easy to become a prophet, all you've got to do is read history and learn from it... 😇

I have tried to expand and clarify my point, but you seem determined to pick fault with my initial post, rather than address or answer my attempts to qualify the difference between individual and societal moral output.

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We are all products of our cultures and stoneage people are just as smart as we are now; imagine if heaven is available to all of us, now, and we don't even have to die to get there; all we have to do is be content with what we have now.

I'm not suggesting you're being intellectually dishonest, just that the approach is, but it's ironic that you choose reply to my post in such a way. Assuming we're both atheistic, then Yhwh did nothing and Amos was disagreeing with the wisdom of the age that spawned it's imagery, by hating everything about it without trying to understand why they may have conjured such a being.

It could just mean only listen to our teacher, bc they actually makes sense in this time and culture. I think this approach is intellectually dishonest, if we go back far enough of course we can chery pick the part where we didn't understand the difference between coralation and causation. They were still as smart as we are now and equally susceptible to confirmation bias, the only difference is, now we have cars and traffic light's, and a lot of people flashing their headlight's thinking that will turn the red lights to green bc whenever they're in a hurry it seemed to work.

I'm sorry I'm clearly not making my point, This post is basically my point, the more we interfere (healthcare) the closer we get to the "outside". It's my understanding that ethics is societies version of individually agreed average morals that are mostly tollerable. In this context, what's the difference?

Where does infinity fit in?

This is an ethical question, when is our morals not affordable, to which your answer is, minions who tell lies; get a better butler you idiot...

But they will... 😬

Life isn't binary, it's analog sometimes it's more than 1.

If only we could learn from history instead... No one really wins...

It's being undermined by morning TV, almost everyday they have a guest with a sob story, demanding they get a million pound treatment that will extend their life for 6 month's. WTF, how did you manage to showhorn my 'natural jingoism' into the discussion??? 🙄