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To: Ilaine who wrote (132111)5/7/2004 6:48:38 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "Not really worth debating, seems to me, because it's impossible to prove, so why bother? Maybe a good hypothetical for an ethics final exam."

This is the essence of my complaint to Neocon. Here we are in the midst of a fiasco, and all he can do is post hypotheticals about shoppers and bombs. Our soldiers are not facing hypothetical IEDs, and our nation's honor has not been hypothetically damaged.

-- Carl



To: Ilaine who wrote (132111)5/8/2004 3:59:42 AM
From: Sam  Respond to of 281500
 
If we could have heaven on earth, but in order to have that heaven, one child would have to be tortured, without ceasing, should we do that?

Actually that was one of the central questions that Dostoevsky asked, explicitly in The Brothers Karamazov, and implicitly in Crime and Punishment. And yes, it is asked in some exams on the books. FWIW.


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