dimreepr

It depends on your definition of alien...

Just this, for now... 😉

I'd never judge someone who doesn't know, but I would challenge someone who thinks they do... It doesn't, when I say maybe read apathy.

You can't sit on the fence on this question: If you say yes, you have to accept that you and your loved one's might be the victim. If you say no, you have to accept; there's a very small chance, you're wrong and an innocent dies. If you say maybe, you have to accept Guantanamo bay.

Indeed +1. Just to add: A time pressure also comes with the chance that a well directed lie would both, run out the clock and save one from further pain; because they know that "we all agree" that torture after the fact is morally wrong. A strong motivation, to someone already radicalised, to kill two bird's with one stone...

We're not alone, we have alien's on this planet that we've yet to meet. I think this was what Douglas Adams had in mind with his "total perspective vortex"

No, it's not a question of how much science we do, it's a question of how much time have we got, to do it in? I believe it's certian, well 99.9%, that life exists in the universe; I'm far less certain that (intelligent) life exists in the solar system. 😆 Indeed, they didn't find that either. 🙂

I think the two equate nicely. (1) Trying to create a star in a lab... (2) Finding an alien on another planet... We've been trying for year's to find life on Mars, a planet that's highly likely to have sustained life at some point in it's history and not even a hint of a corpse. Landing a terrestrial rover on Mars is childs play, compared to landing and deploying a submersible on Titan.

(1)I have clarified that post: (2) Do no harm. (3/4) Like I've said "we lie for ourselves first", so ones greater good is always uppermost and if ones an 'addict' the lies are extreme. Some people routinely lie to themselves, even the none addict's among us, which is bound to skew one's view reality, and in turn, scambles ones view of what exacty is the greater good.

Yes, in much the same way as it's right to torture them...

The belief thingie is what we share, I can't belive we're all sick...

The thing is, a child is only wise; when they grow up...

The death of innocent, is a different question...

You seem to have a different understanding of what is relevant...

Why wouldn't it???

And I've got a tooth-ache, I didn't take it out on you...

True, but do you kick your wife, or the wall???

The wrongest is, causing pain to other's because I'm in pain...

It would do, for a start...

Which end of the spectrum, is the wrongest?

The same chances that nuclear fusion is only twenty years away (for the last 50 year's or so)... It might be possible, but we may never find out...

My neg was for your snide remarks and yet another reasonable question left unanswered, in your answer's; what was your neg for? Now please, can we just discuss the content of the post, in a civilised manor?

My point is, lieing is like eating, we need both for survival and both exist on a spectrum of health ie. addicted to eating, all the way to addicted to dieting; the majority of us tread water somewhere near the middle, but none of us are immune to the edge's.

One day I'll sparkle, and then I'll make the bugger's eye's water...

That depends on your definition of evil...