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« on: October 07, 2012, 04:46:10 PM »
in 2005 the austrian police arrested david irving, a nazi-sympathizing british "historian," for setting foot in the country on the grounds that he was a holocaust denier and, had he been allowed to run wild, might have publicly expressed this belief. this was an assault on his freedom of speech but perhaps for justifiable reasons.
should there be limitations on free speech? (i'm not talking about whether or not shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater should be legal.) or should people who urge bigotry, racism, and violence and postulate harmful falsehoods be allowed to take the podium and say whatever they want to say?
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« on: October 05, 2012, 10:20:39 PM »
i'm alive
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« on: February 08, 2011, 03:19:00 PM »
Specifically, war. I was thinking about it last night. I've always been antiwar, etc., blah, blah, blah, but it really dawned on me last night. War is so fucking stupid. It's such a great example of the manifold suckiness of humanity. I don't even know what to say. I'm at a loss for words. To quote the greatest comedian of all time (may he rest in peace, yo): I'm tired of enemies; I'll be honest with you. I'm sick of enemies. I got no fucking enemies, K? K. It's just a strange world; I don't know what we choose, why we choose the things we do as a collective. You ever wondered that? You know what I mean, the fact taht we live in a world where John Lennon was murdered, yet Milli Vanilli walks the fucking planet. You know? Bad choice. Just from me to you, it wasn't a good one. But isn't that weird, we always kill the guys who try and help us. Isn’t that strange, that we let the little demons run amok, always? John Lennon: murdered. John Kennedy: murdered. Martin Luther King: murdered. Gandhi: murdered. Jesus: murdered. Reagan … wounded. You know. Bad fucking choice.
But even though that’s the case, where we live in a world where good men are murdered and little demons run amok, I’m sorry I still believe it isn’t; in fact I had a vision of a way we could have no enemies ever again, if you’re interested in this. Anybody interested in hearing this? It’s kind of an interesting theory, and all we have to do is make one decisive act and we can rid the world of all our enemies at once. Here’s what we do. You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense ever year? Trillions of dollars. Instead, if we spent this money feeding and clothing the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded … not one … we could as one race explore outer space together in peace, for ever. What a simple fucking solution, at least making an effort to make life better for EVERYONE IN THE WORLD. But NOPE! Let's go blow shit up halfway across the world. What a premise!
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« on: February 04, 2011, 06:29:21 PM »
A runaway train with two passengers speeds toward a bridge over a deep canyon. The bridge is destroyed, and if the train continues on its course then the two passengers will die. You have the chance to throw the switch and divert the train onto a different track where a single man is working on the rails. If you choose to divert the train then you will murder the worker, but the two passengers will survive. If you choose not to intervene then worker will live, but the passengers will die. There are no other options. What do you do?
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« on: January 23, 2011, 02:44:53 AM »
What justifies it?
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« on: October 23, 2010, 03:35:03 AM »
Can (and should) science determine morals, or should morals be the domain of philosophy—or theology—divorced from science?
And the plug: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris.
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« on: August 29, 2010, 01:16:29 PM »
This is sort of an exploration of my personal philosophy and also an outlet for my gargantuan ego. I don't expect discussion, really. Just a vanity project.
As a rule, I don’t mind being around people. I’m quick to lose my patience and I see a lot of people (the majority, maybe) as irresponsible, superstitious idiots, but usually not to the point of being unbearable when I'm in the same room as them. To some extent, I think that tolerance contradicts my overall view of humanity, which follows.
On a purely philosophical level, I more or less embrace misanthropy. (This is great because it gives me one more way to milk my ego and feel superior to all—well, most—of you.) I don’t hold grudges toward people on an individual basis. If I did I’d be one sad guy, and anyway it’s too much effort. Individual personalities contribute to the problem, but the species on the whole, not its individual constituents, are at its core.
Humanity is a parasite on the universe. Our relationships with other species—with nature in general—may once have been commensal or mutualistic, but since the dawn of industrialization we have had a net negative effect on our planet. We have catalyzed, or at the very least accelerated, the extinction of countless species; polluted, wounded, and destroyed entire ecosystems; chugged vast quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and warmed the globe at a potentially catastrophic rate; and treated animals with cruelty and disregard of embarrassing proportions (watch Food, Inc. if you’re looking for a good reason to hate your fellow man). Note that I have not even touched on the atrocities to which humans have subjected each other: rape, murder, war, slavery, genocide, and so on. Those atrocities are beside the point, the point being that unlike other species, which serve as necessary aspects of a properly functioning ecosystem, we create imbalances in nature. You might say that we have become unnatural.
In a sense, we’ve beaten the system; we no longer operate as a cog in the wheel, or rather we operate as a cog a couple measures too large that’s grinding and scraping and tearing the wheel into discord. (Even a cursory study of climate change will demonstrate that we are not all that far from transforming the planet into a place where the species that currently populate the biosphere, humanity included, will perish. It may take centuries or millennia. Those figures may seem like long spans of time, but they are miniscule on the evolutionary scale; they do not allow for the adaptations required for survival.)
From a coldly scientific perspective, humans are blight on the world. From that same perspective, it is easy to make the argument that we therefore do not deserve existence, that we should eradicate ourselves, and consequently cease all environmentally detrimental processes of ours, in order to preserve nature.
Here comes the objection that the need to preserve nature is an a priori statement—possibly erroneous, certainly subjective. The counterargument probably runs along the lines that the stability of nature does not precede the survival and welfare of humanity, or that the entire dilemma is rendered moot when one values other aspects of the universe (e.g., love, creation, intellectual inquiry, religious faith) over the preservation of nature or the perpetuation of survival. But if we are to attempt to replace that assumption with an assumption that puts more emphasis on the value of human life or of certain human activities, then we have no choice but to accept that world must exist in a state suitable for humanity in order to allow for human life in the first place. Thus far, we can live with the damage we’ve done to our environment, but the same may not be said of future generations. Though the solution may not be annihilation, we still return to the preservation of our world as a necessity.
And then there is the issue of our place in the universe. It can be said that self-consciousness, by its nature, breeds a sense of self-importance. We are the most intelligent beings on the planet, in the solar system, but where there is intelligence there is an inflation in self-worth. Our unique mental faculties, in and of themselves, do not grant us superiority over dogs or mice or beetles. Natural selection dictates that we protect and promote our own; otherwise our species would not survive in the relentless competition that is evolution. We are hardwired to overcome other species, to thrive at their expense, but on an ethical level that is no excuse for the devastation we’ve wreaked on them and on the world at large. With the Industrial Revolution we took an irrevocable step away from our natural roots; our relationship with nature is dysfunctional, unbalanced. We are a parasite.
No, in practice of course I don’t advocate the self-destruction of the human species. There may be a hint of hypocrisy, or inconsistency, here, but then hypocrisy should not be limited to rationality—to undertake such an endeavor would be dishonest to my intuition, to my emotions (which in a neurological sense are a precondition for reason). It would also be maddeningly futile. There are more humane and more feasible alternatives: reduction of world human population through contraception and enforced constraints on family size, to cut to the root cause. In the grand scheme of things the planet might have been better off had we not existed in the first place, but while there is no justice in the atrocities we commit against nature, there is also none in those we may commit against each other. We lack the authority to strip our neighbors and children of the liberty for which life is a prerequisite. The biological evil of our evolution does not justify the moral evil of the extreme actions we might take to minimize our negative effect. Acceptance of humanity's viral nature and consequent contempt for the species do not render the morality of such actions irrelevant. So we are at an impasse.
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« on: August 11, 2010, 10:09:10 PM »
Immediately after Wholegrain unbanned me yesterday I was able to play. Then when the map changed I was unable to join again. What the hell is going on? When I pull up the server information window all I get is "Server is not responding." Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:16714066 IP Address: Haha yeah right. 
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« on: July 06, 2010, 03:27:14 PM »
What server are you applying for: KAT (ZPS) Were you recommended by an admin? If so state the name: No In game name: crypto Link to your steam page: http://steamcommunity.com/id/idcryptoSteam ID: Dunno Do you have past admin experience: POD, CG What are some good qualities you possess: None What country are you from: US Age: 17 Notes: Tired of coming on when there are eight or ten people and two or three of them are being complete shit heads, and there're no admins on to take care of it
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« on: February 23, 2010, 07:08:37 PM »
Name of player reporting abuse: Anonym
(you may be anoynmous)
Admin who is suspected of the abuse: (=CG=) Wholegrain
In which server did the abuse ocurr?: ConjointGaming.com |RANK|FAST DL|
What ocurred, what did the abuse consist of: Slaying for no reason
What time and day did it happen (put down your time zone too): 4:00 PM (ET), 2/23/10
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