well that presupposes the existence of the devil which i dont buy.
would you change your username if it would keep alot of other users from being offended?
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well that presupposes the existence of the devil which i dont buy.
would you change your username if it would keep alot of other users from being offended?
There is a bit of a contradiction in selling your soul to the devil to do good, isn't there?
and to answer vbm's question I would, because if you can prevent offending others you should.
If you had to choose between giving up freedom of speech or freedom of religion wwhich one would you choose (if you could actually give up the one without the other).
poehee99:
No there isn't. You assume that good and evil are inextricably polarised. They are not. When people commit the most monstrous crimes, they are assumed by large numbers of the general populace to be inherently evil, and without any redeeming qualities. This is obviously wrong. Even Stalin or Hitler had more human traits than the evil monsters they are portrayed to be.
Neither speech nor religion seem particularly free to me. There are legal restrictions on what you can say, and much religious belief is a result of cultural conditioning. But if the question is rephrased as "what would you prefer to give up the idea of free speech or the idea of freedom of religious belief", then I think it is dependent on whether freedom of religious belief means compulsory religious belief or no religious belief. In the case of the former, I would rather (marginally) give up free speech to preserve my intellectual integrity. In the case of the latter, I would give up freedom of religious belief any day.
The Oxford theologian Keith Ward has recently written a book in which he claims the world is now ready for religious convergence. Can the world ever unite in its religious belief? After all, don't most religions believe in their own absolute truths, which differ from religion to religion?
AP? where is your "would you".
im confused....
Actually, I'm the one whose confused. Didn't quite understand this thread. So anyway, here's my would you. Would you kill a dictator, if it definitely meant saving numerous lives?
I probably would not be able to, I strongly dislike violence asa solution to anything.
Humans are strange creatures - I might be able to kill if the same dictator was trying to kill just one person right here before me. I would not even have to be numerous lives - just one, here. But planning for an execution I probably just could not do.
Would you be a dictator if you thought that that was the only way for your country to live in peace?
No. Not unless I knew that was the only way for my country to live in peace. But quite honestly, I'm not a great fan of nation-states and the nationalism / patriotism that goes with it. I see no reason to align myself with a concept that I am associated with merely out of the accident of birth. Of course, I have many individuals to thank for who and what I am, but that is a very different matter to becoming nationalistic etc. In my book, individuals are always more important than groups, people are more significant than states.
Someone you love has murdered someone. Would you inform the police if you knew? or would you protect them from prosecution? Lets say you know they would never do it again.
I think it would depend on the circumstances... that is a tough call..
Would you marry for money?
No, and I know this first hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiwi Shelf
Would you say that something tasted good, so's not to
offend the person who cooked it?
Even if you were lying throught your teeth?
Been there, done that. Several times.
If offered a choice, would you rather live to 60 and die peacefully in your sleep or to 68 and die painfully but quite quickly or to 75 and die a horribly painful death?
I would live to 60 and die peacefully. It would be easier on my family that way, and then I can be assured that I had some say in what would happen to my remains (in hope that there were organs that could be used to save others, and no one had to spend more thatn 10k on a funeral for me.)
Would you tell an acquaintance that they had a booger hanging from their nose, or let them walk away in that predicament?
I would tell them... Especially if I don't like them much.
Would you revive old game threads to have more games to play? :D
I could :p
Would you like to play? :D
You know I would.
Would you choose truth or dare?
Truth.
Would you exaggerate your skills/abilities/knowledge in your CV/resume?