sparky wrote:.
Coming out of the bottle shop ,the frosty bottles of brew soaked the paper bag ,
a couple fell and broke on the sidewalk , I was picking the shards to clean the mess when a girl with her man came and told me I should complain to the store for improperly packaging my purchase.
as she was insistent , I looked at her and politely say
..." Lady ,I'm a man ,it's my world ...it's my shit "
she looked at me uncomprehending while her man , standing behind , nodded energetically
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Pops wrote:
Oh yeah, one more, Give Credit: ^^David Foster Wallace; Infinite Jest
Newfie wrote:What the hell does that mean?
Ibon wrote:Hypothetical game. You have a vial of a virulent pathogen. If you release it the worlds population will reduce to 200 million with no idea beforehand who will be spared. When you release that vial you know that most likely you and some or most or maybe all of your loved ones or kin may perish. Not releasing the vial means you live out your normal life span but there is a 99% that humans go extinct 100 years later due to catastrophic consequences. Do you release that vial? Or do you hold out for that 1% chance that we will save ourselves?
onlooker wrote:Ibon wrote:Hypothetical game. You have a vial of a virulent pathogen. If you release it the worlds population will reduce to 200 million with no idea beforehand who will be spared. When you release that vial you know that most likely you and some or most or maybe all of your loved ones or kin may perish. Not releasing the vial means you live out your normal life span but there is a 99% that humans go extinct 100 years later due to catastrophic consequences. Do you release that vial? Or do you hold out for that 1% chance that we will save ourselves?
In keeping with what me and Newf were discussing. Interesting, that 1% chance complicates the matter. Then again what in life in truly 100% certain. Nevertheless, as you laid it out, it is quite clear, that the person who chooses not to release the vial is acting out of selfish motives and conversely the one who does is acting out of unselfish motives. Their should not be any grey area here for anybody.
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