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Re: Tonglen
That sounds like a difficult position to be in, life has not made your path easy, it seems 🙏
For your consideration:
“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”
— Orson Welles, The Third Man
Jeroen
Re: The AI tsunami
@lobster said:
Homo Superious is not yet available whilst the 'simian reservation' of Homo Sapiens that we live on, convinces they have the solution to a problem they are party to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhuman
I can't say I really understand your riddle. If I were to hazard a guess I'd say its a pro transhumanism statement? That the "simian reservation" is our current evolved body and mind? And a hope that a merging with technology will be our salvation?
Yes, no?
person
Re: Jubilee Surrounded : 1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives (ft. Mehdi Hasan)
@Shoshin1 said:
The content isn’t meant to be 'enjoyable'
Then for me it fails at being good content. No offence.
Jeroen
Re: Welcome, new members!
Thank you! I've been very much looking forward to be here. So much, that I now deleted enlargement pill and African prince-related jokes from my program.
RobinH
Re: Deliberatly Ending a Human life- How can we justify it ?
@lobster said:
Euthanasia is legal in Switzerland. Someone we knew from there, who was in constant nerve pain, decided after visiting us to end her constant pain. She had aready decided we wer not causal ... You think she should just suffer incurable pain?We looked after my mother at home with Alzhiemers/Dementia until a week before her death in hospital. She could not drink and was barely responsive. Two doctors recommended taking her off drips and support. Me and my siblings agreed to this. We did not have to BUT she would never have wanted to be a burden. She was very well looked after by the NHS.
So to answer your question. Suffering is optional. Not for you? OK, don't!
Job done.You are not offensive. Did you want everyone to suffer for your preferences? Just askin'.
You will be happy that the UK is moving closer to legalised murder then? aka euthanasia...just askin.
Angus