You don't have to put a dollar amount on a human life in order for the answer to the question to be "yes, where do I sign up?" You merely have to define an equivalence between lives. To you, are all human lives equal in value? If so, consider how many lives you could save with the $million you get by killing one innocent (though that's an entire other discussion) person.
What gives you the right to determine if someone should leave or die, what gives you the right to decide what life is worth more? Regardless of who might be saved or who might be bettered, no one has the right to take away the life of another human being.
Also, where do you draw the line? To quote Swordfish, "how about 10 innocents? or 100? How about 1,000 innocents?" - Its not your choise to make, and the ends do not justify the means, Machivelli was wrong.
Ahh yes, where else but/. could you catch an argument between a Swede, a Norwegian and a Finn about which one is more incompetant when it comes to computers...
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Gravity only effects marcoscopic objects.
Marconi, Tesla, Self-Organizing circuit...
NASA better hurry up on that one...
Perhaps some books such as 1984 and Brave New World should be made into required reading for students nationwide... just a thought.
Apparently they have practical rather than philosophical motivations
Shouldn't open source in general be both philosophical AND practical?
Sitting behind me were 4 people, 3 girls and 1 guy. They wouldn't shut the hell up!
Shit man, I'm sorry, I'm pretty sure that was me and my friends...
The Onion is the masterpiece that it is because it's so clever, so subtle, so 'could be true'.
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You mean, its not true? http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/07/1829212.sht
You don't have to put a dollar amount on a human life in order for the answer to the question to be "yes, where do I sign up?" You merely have to define an equivalence between lives. To you, are all human lives equal in value? If so, consider how many lives you could save with the $million you get by killing one innocent (though that's an entire other discussion) person.
What gives you the right to determine if someone should leave or die, what gives you the right to decide what life is worth more? Regardless of who might be saved or who might be bettered, no one has the right to take away the life of another human being.
Also, where do you draw the line? To quote Swordfish, "how about 10 innocents? or 100? How about 1,000 innocents?" - Its not your choise to make, and the ends do not justify the means, Machivelli was wrong.
Ahh yes, where else but /. could you catch an argument between a Swede, a Norwegian and a Finn about which one is more incompetant when it comes to computers...
the ultimate question? Perhaps the mice were forced to build an even LARGER computer to find this out...
Actually, black holes are where god divided by zero.