Post #336,980
12/9/10 3:57:25 AM
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"Convinced"?
Ok, here' the billboard: Kill your wife! And send the video to my website!
Nah, not the same. Ok, wait. Let me think.
How about this?
Video tape your neighbor killing his wife and send the video tape to me.
Hmm. Not quite the same.
How about: If you find a video of your neighbor killing his wife that he took and left out in front of you, and you are afraid he'll kill you if you say anything about it, send it to me. I'll take the "heat" for showing it.
Yeah, that's about right.
Tough moral dilemma.
For some.
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Post #337,009
12/9/10 3:17:31 PM
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Nah, the first one is pretty close
break the law and send me the spoils....
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Post #337,018
12/9/10 6:48:19 PM
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And we all know
that we pick and choose the laws we adhere to.
At least some of us do.
Based on our own perceived likelyhood of harm of the act, combined with harm of getting caught, and then roll the dice.
And we certainly look at the law of other countries with a mixture of awe and contempt.
So you feel that a non US citizen should adhere to some type of ruleset that makes him beholden to US laws, laws that we don't even enforce against our own citizens? And in this case, they still haven't come up with a law he's broken. So now non-US citizens have to be concerned about the random political implications of their acts when a random powerful person can cause them indirect damage through back channels.
Holy shit. This sounds like a scenario that we should document and send to wikileaks. It's an obvious case of power abuse.
Beep, this is the exact reason what he is doing is important and good. Thanks for clarifying it for me.
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Post #337,020
12/9/10 6:52:02 PM
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Okee dokee.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Post #337,029
12/9/10 8:33:02 PM
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Answer me on question.
Are you familiar with the "Pentagon Papers" from 1971?
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Post #337,073
12/10/10 5:38:01 AM
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Yes dear.
But you appear to still be missing my point if you think this is relevant.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Post #337,097
12/10/10 1:43:10 PM
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People seem to miss your point pretty frequently
Why do you think that is?
--
Drew
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Post #337,129
12/11/10 1:10:39 PM
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Too busy with hero worship, perhaps?
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Post #337,074
12/10/10 5:38:02 AM
12/10/10 5:38:30 AM
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Mouse gone haywire...dupe
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Edited by beepster
Dec. 10, 2010, 05:38:30 AM EST
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Post #337,110
12/11/10 2:56:58 AM
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Think you've got it
But in a place wherein bizness is the majority National Religion and where there are so many persons 'whose job (or other affiliation) depends upon their not knowing certain things'
... well, you can see that Logic is not Enough.
I guess we all lack experience in the now, post-deductive society
(however well we may have adapted to the post-literate era of the '00s
... so evidently a new relative-minimum on the curve.)
But a whole series of new relative-MINs?
Who'd a thunk that average-lowering could become so contagious?!
And so rapidly.
I could almost see voting for Palin in 2012 on the grounds that this sorry ratfucking excuse for a republic, this savage, smirking, predatory empire deserves her. Bring on the Rapture, motherfuckers!
-- via RC
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