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Damned Aristotelian! :)
I think most definitions will tell you that effigies are made to representations of (or maybe "especially of") people. But it doesn't matter in the case of the ship, because you could just say "reproduction."
One problem with your answer, Clopin, is that it begs the question: well, at what point did it stop being the same boat? When the first replacement was made? But ships are refitted all the time. When the last change was made? But what if it was only a splinter? At 51%? But what about 50.00000000000000001% or some smaller number? Isn't the answer necessarily arbitrary? A Platonist, on the other hand, would say that it's the same ship, because the ship is the idea of the ship rather than the material it happens to be made from at any given time. I think the problem of Theseus' ship exists today with the USS Constitution, terror of the Atlantic during the War of 1812, which has slowly but surely lost every original component.
Should boxing be outlawed?
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I would say at 100% replacement it becomes a reproduction of the original, sorry Plato. But I'm not sure or anything. I definitely wouldn't want to argue with Plato though, he'll slap you into a Socraric dialogue so fast people two thousand years hence will still be laughing at you.
Of course not. Neither should UFC or whatever other stupid thing people want to do to give each other concussions and permanent brain damage.
What's the best team sport sport out of baseball, American football, soccer, Canadian football, hockey and basketball.
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Baseball, the proper metaphor for life.
If gladiators could be freely recruited (even if they were only in it because they were desperate for money), should gladiatorial combat to the death be made legal again?
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No, and the distinction between circus maximus and modern era blood sports may only be a difference of degree, but it's still an important difference.
Haha should hockey fights be banned? And I don't mean contact scraps, I mean fights where two guys just stop the game and have a fistfight for about thirty seconds.
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I think they are banned, aren't they? Hockey players who do that should just be banned from the game the first time it happens. But baseball players should still be allowed to slide at the second baseman with their cleats up. It's a question of degree, right? ;-)
Should the British monarchy be abolished?
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Nah, you just get a penalty, but both teams do and it doesn't actually go to 4 on 4 so it's a token gesture.
I don't really care, unless the queen dies and we have to suffer William on our money. No thank you.
Proportional representation or first past the post? (speaking of England).
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Well, I don't really feel qualified to be tell the British people how their democracy ought to work. My gut instinct would be to have first past the post elections, and then to run them off. Proportional elections do seem more representative on the whole, but from a practical view, they could give the crazies (Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists) more power than I would like to see them have. I guess I'm cautious about it, but not closed minded.
Little pretzels covered in white chocolate or Cheese Wiz?
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Wiz!!!!
What book should I read next?
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Death Warmed Over - Kevin J Anderson (A Dan Shamble - Zombie Detective novel)
If you change something and realized it has made no difference, did you really change anything?
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Yes. you may not notice the affect.
where are you going on your next vacation?
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I think I don't have traditional vacations but im hoping this summer for a day or two of canoeing or kayaking in central new York with an old friend from undergraduate days.
although, I would like to go to Ireland. rather, id like to be in Ireland--im not too keen on the "going/getting there" part.
if you had a chance to rewrite the ending of any one book or movie, how would you change it?
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Every fairy tale would NOT end with "and they lived happily ever after!"
If you were offered a role in a movie, who would you like to play?
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boy, too many choices! some historical figure, a loner who seeks justice on the behalf of others, a superhero, an explorer, a fatally flawed character in a romance, a brilliant but misunderstood fellow? and on and on...
I lean towards something/somebody on a quest or mission that involves comrades and succeeding with both brains and brawn. maybe Aragorn, or Odysseus.
on another hand---someone on a spiritual journey that involves a lot of soul searching is appealing too, like if pilgrim's progress were made into a movie.
would you rather walk the Appalachian trail, ride bikes coast to coast, paddle the Mississippi, or some other epic physical challenge?
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Given those choices (and a younger me), I would rather take the river journey, though probably not along the Mississippi, which is too big and too industrial; maybe along the Saco River in Maine, which I did when I was a teenager. It was wilderness in those days. I hope it still is.
You can spend an all-expenses paid year soaking in the sun (and eating fine foods and wine) on the beaches of the Riviera or backpacking rough around the world with a three friends. But you can only do one. Which is it?
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Riviera right now probably since I've been sick pretty much constantly for the last six months and I don't feel up to the backpacking.
Would you rather be exceptionally gifted in the traits and manners of Dionysus, Appollo or Athena?
