Intent to do harm??? How can a robot determine that?
Just have it cast "Detect Evil" periodically and "Smite Evil" on any evil so detected. Add some random wandering algorithm and there you have it, and automated paladin:).
To be only attracted to teenagers and going on to take advantage of troubled children who mistake sexuality for affection is a sickness.
I assume that by children you actually meant teenagers; the distinction is quite important one when discussing sexual orientation.
Exploiting other people doesn't make you sick, it makes you an asshole. This, of course, assumes that the teenager in question is actually being taken advantage of, rather than simply engaging in sex for her own enjoyment. Finally, sex is a form of affection, just like hugs and kisses; it simply has additional baggage on top of that.
Anyway, according to Wikipedia, being attracted exclusively to teenagers isn't classified as a mental disorder by actual psychiatrists, so I'd have to disagree with you. Simply because you find someone's conduct distasteful doesn't make them sick.
"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
What you do depends on what you decide to do, which on turn depends on the particular circumstances at that moment, your personal history, the personality traits you've been born with, etc. You are a part of the universe, and therefore influenced by the other parts of it.
You are not "alone" responsible for your actions, since those actions are in part influenced by other people; to claim otherwise is to deny that your actions can have any influence on other people, which in turn would make all possible actions to be without consequences and therefore morally neutral.
I love the smell of philosophical flamewars in the morning >:).
Making life less pleasant for ephebephiles sounds fair to me.
To be attracted to teenagers; truly, the depth of depravity of those perverted sickos knows no bound ! They should love their dogs instead, like upstanding citizens !
As evidenced by this mess they have gotten themselves into. They really have nobody to blame but themselves, because they had ample opportunity to avoid this situation.
Mighty fine website you have here. Shame if anything would happen to it.
You know, the police is not supposed to be liable for business method patent lawsuit from the Mafia.
They may or may not have been tracking any actual "child porn", but they are definitely tracking large amounts of pedophile material.
Pedophile material ? Please tell me what this "pedophile material" might be if it is not child porn ? And please also tell why tracking it is a crime or morally wrong, if it isn't child porn ?
But I gotta admit, "pedophile material" certainly sounds ominous. I guess it is to pedophilia what truthiness is to truth.
Having integrity and ethics separates men from animals. It's your choice what you want to be.
The fence at the zoo separates men from animals. All pack-forming animals have ethics of some kind, for the simple reason that not having any would make living in a pack impossible. For example, a dog lower in the pack hierarchy will wait until the higher-ups have finished eating before taking its share of the food.
What really separates men from animals is making grandiose statements like you did in an attempt to equate being human with whatever behavior you happen to agree with, and implying that doing otherwise makes one less than human.
Lewinsky Corollary: As soon as any online discussion mentions George W. Bush, any unfavorable actions attributed to him will be defended by stating "Clinton did it too."
Shouldn't that be: "But Clinton got a blowjob!" ?
I'm waiting for Hollywood to make a movie of the subject... Any suggestions for a name ?-) "Billy the Dick" ?-)
Please don't call it kiddie-porn. It's child abuse.
A picture of a naked child may or may not be child pornography (or "kiddie-porn"), which is an object, real or virtual (file). Taking or otherwise manufacturing (drawing, rendering, etc.) that picture may or may not be child abuse, which is an act. Now, it can be argued that the act of looking at those pics is child abuse, which may or may not be true; but your implication that the pictures themselves are child abuse is logically absurd, since they are objects, not acts.
You're assuming politics are 1 dimensional, left -> right. Not the case.
More and more it seems that politics are zero-dimensional, with everything converging towards a single point. Every party sells out its ideals and moves towards the "center" from their respective directions in an effort to appeal to more people; and that spot just happens to be one of corruption, globalization and zero personal freedom.
Interesting you should bring that up, as in 1994 a conservative MP died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, combined with self-bondage and cross-dressing.
Yes, surprisingly, strangling yourself is not healthy. If only the poor guy had taken his fantasies out on healthy and safe outlets, such as pornography, he might still be among us.
mean, I care about what movies Brad Pitt's gonna star in 'cause he's one of my favorite actors, but I'd really rather be punched in the face than hear the term "Brangelina" EVER again in my life. That's the sort of nonsense I just don't understand. People who pin their hopes and dreams on mundane details of the daily lives of people they'll never personally know disappoint me.
Pin their hopes and dreams ? I think you're mistaken. Those people consider Mr. Pitt's everyday life the same as you consider his movies: entertainment.
Lawful evil, impervious to rational arguments, gains power from other people's tragedies, +1 against freedom.
Chaotic evil. Thompson has shown a disregard for the Constitution and lack of anything approaching personal honor or code of conduct, as well as behaved in a way which has made others doubt his sanity. Being a lawyer doesn't make him lawful; it simply means he knows the legal system.
The media companies that give him an outlet make money off his attention-whoring -- they are acting quite rationally.
Are they ? Jack Thompson is a raving lunatic. Is helping a raving lunatic gain power for short-term gain rational ? Especially since anti-videogame hysteria could easily turn against other forms of media.
Besides, I'm not at all certain that basing all decisions on what makes most money makes you sane.
The only "catch" is that they tap the energy of Earth's magnetic field.
Buf if the magnetic field gets weaker, the compasses stop working, and the boy scouts can't use them to find their way in the forest. Won't someone pelase think of the children ?
Oh, and we'll all die horribly under the particle bombardment of solar wind, but first things first.
First, the premise that God is separate from his creations implies that God is finite.
No it doesn't. The set of positive integers is separate from the set of negative integers, and both are infinite.
If God is finite and separate from his creations, then the two must be contained in some greater thing, and this greater thing would be more perfect than God, by virtue of being a superset of him.
This of course assumes that size - or the total amount of qualities - equals perfection. I can think of many qualities which would lessen, not increase, perfection. Gluttony, for example.
Second, something which is perfect must logically be immutable. Any change in the state of a perfect thing would render it imperfect, or imply that the original state was not perfect to begin with.
Assuming that there is only one perfect state. There is no reason to assume such a thing, or can you give any ? And if there is more than one perfect state, an entity could flip between them without losing or gaining any perfection.
Look, just give it up. The logical arguments for or against God has been made for the past few thousand years, and they've failed to prove anything. It simply can't be done, especially without first defining what "perfection" and "omnipotence" mean.
If atheism is a belief system then not collecting stamps is a hobby.
If atheism is similar to not collecting stamps, why is there not a specific word for people who do not collect stamps ?
In any case, weak atheism (lack of belief in a god) and strong atheism (belief that there is no god) are quite different, so referring to them both as "atheism" is very likely to lead to this kind of pointless arguments over semantics. Consequently I recommend either using the word "agnosticism" for weak atheism and preserving the word "atheism" for strong atheism only, or always specifying whether one is speaking of weak or strong atheism when talking about them. It will cut off the etymological crap and allow us to jump right to the religious flamewar;).
Maybe it will be, if you volunteer to shoot a porn movie but lack the necessary stamina and charisma...
Can you shoot porn movies in Fallout 3 ? Or engage in prostitution ? Or sleep with the head of slaver's guild to get a discount ? Or has the world been cleaned up to match current standards of morality (meaning you'll get exploding heads, but no sex, drugs or slavery) ?
I don't think you can make a Fallout game with modern-day graphics without ending up with AO rating. M only gets you gore.
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Just have it cast "Detect Evil" periodically and "Smite Evil" on any evil so detected. Add some random wandering algorithm and there you have it, and automated paladin :).
I assume that by children you actually meant teenagers; the distinction is quite important one when discussing sexual orientation.
Exploiting other people doesn't make you sick, it makes you an asshole. This, of course, assumes that the teenager in question is actually being taken advantage of, rather than simply engaging in sex for her own enjoyment. Finally, sex is a form of affection, just like hugs and kisses; it simply has additional baggage on top of that.
Anyway, according to Wikipedia, being attracted exclusively to teenagers isn't classified as a mental disorder by actual psychiatrists, so I'd have to disagree with you. Simply because you find someone's conduct distasteful doesn't make them sick.
Yes, because people's sexual fantasies tend to be both politically correct and reasonable :).
What you do depends on what you decide to do, which on turn depends on the particular circumstances at that moment, your personal history, the personality traits you've been born with, etc. You are a part of the universe, and therefore influenced by the other parts of it.
You are not "alone" responsible for your actions, since those actions are in part influenced by other people; to claim otherwise is to deny that your actions can have any influence on other people, which in turn would make all possible actions to be without consequences and therefore morally neutral.
I love the smell of philosophical flamewars in the morning >:).
Lesbianism ?-) Besides, was it specifically said that they are female virgins; maybe the women hope to go to the same place as dead slashdotters ?-)
To be attracted to teenagers; truly, the depth of depravity of those perverted sickos knows no bound ! They should love their dogs instead, like upstanding citizens !
Mighty fine website you have here. Shame if anything would happen to it.
You know, the police is not supposed to be liable for business method patent lawsuit from the Mafia.
Pedophile material ? Please tell me what this "pedophile material" might be if it is not child porn ? And please also tell why tracking it is a crime or morally wrong, if it isn't child porn ?
But I gotta admit, "pedophile material" certainly sounds ominous. I guess it is to pedophilia what truthiness is to truth.
Why not ? They are already associated with cowboy copyright organizations after the first Pirate Bay incident.
What I want to know is: when it was caught, did it shout "It's a trap!" ?
The fence at the zoo separates men from animals. All pack-forming animals have ethics of some kind, for the simple reason that not having any would make living in a pack impossible. For example, a dog lower in the pack hierarchy will wait until the higher-ups have finished eating before taking its share of the food.
What really separates men from animals is making grandiose statements like you did in an attempt to equate being human with whatever behavior you happen to agree with, and implying that doing otherwise makes one less than human.
Shouldn't that be: "But Clinton got a blowjob!" ?
I'm waiting for Hollywood to make a movie of the subject... Any suggestions for a name ?-) "Billy the Dick" ?-)
A picture of a naked child may or may not be child pornography (or "kiddie-porn"), which is an object, real or virtual (file). Taking or otherwise manufacturing (drawing, rendering, etc.) that picture may or may not be child abuse, which is an act. Now, it can be argued that the act of looking at those pics is child abuse, which may or may not be true; but your implication that the pictures themselves are child abuse is logically absurd, since they are objects, not acts.
More and more it seems that politics are zero-dimensional, with everything converging towards a single point. Every party sells out its ideals and moves towards the "center" from their respective directions in an effort to appeal to more people; and that spot just happens to be one of corruption, globalization and zero personal freedom.
Yes, surprisingly, strangling yourself is not healthy. If only the poor guy had taken his fantasies out on healthy and safe outlets, such as pornography, he might still be among us.
In Internet Pornography, dogs molest you!
Pin their hopes and dreams ? I think you're mistaken. Those people consider Mr. Pitt's everyday life the same as you consider his movies: entertainment.
Chaotic evil. Thompson has shown a disregard for the Constitution and lack of anything approaching personal honor or code of conduct, as well as behaved in a way which has made others doubt his sanity. Being a lawyer doesn't make him lawful; it simply means he knows the legal system.
Are they ? Jack Thompson is a raving lunatic. Is helping a raving lunatic gain power for short-term gain rational ? Especially since anti-videogame hysteria could easily turn against other forms of media.
Besides, I'm not at all certain that basing all decisions on what makes most money makes you sane.
Buf if the magnetic field gets weaker, the compasses stop working, and the boy scouts can't use them to find their way in the forest. Won't someone pelase think of the children ?
Oh, and we'll all die horribly under the particle bombardment of solar wind, but first things first.
No it doesn't. The set of positive integers is separate from the set of negative integers, and both are infinite.
This of course assumes that size - or the total amount of qualities - equals perfection. I can think of many qualities which would lessen, not increase, perfection. Gluttony, for example.
Assuming that there is only one perfect state. There is no reason to assume such a thing, or can you give any ? And if there is more than one perfect state, an entity could flip between them without losing or gaining any perfection.
Look, just give it up. The logical arguments for or against God has been made for the past few thousand years, and they've failed to prove anything. It simply can't be done, especially without first defining what "perfection" and "omnipotence" mean.
If atheism is similar to not collecting stamps, why is there not a specific word for people who do not collect stamps ?
In any case, weak atheism (lack of belief in a god) and strong atheism (belief that there is no god) are quite different, so referring to them both as "atheism" is very likely to lead to this kind of pointless arguments over semantics. Consequently I recommend either using the word "agnosticism" for weak atheism and preserving the word "atheism" for strong atheism only, or always specifying whether one is speaking of weak or strong atheism when talking about them. It will cut off the etymological crap and allow us to jump right to the religious flamewar ;).
I think most home computers might be quite slow if they allocate a 4 gigabyte network buffer ;).
Can you shoot porn movies in Fallout 3 ? Or engage in prostitution ? Or sleep with the head of slaver's guild to get a discount ? Or has the world been cleaned up to match current standards of morality (meaning you'll get exploding heads, but no sex, drugs or slavery) ?
I don't think you can make a Fallout game with modern-day graphics without ending up with AO rating. M only gets you gore.
Standing up makes you easier to hit. Laying in dirt is safer.