(November 4, 2016 at 6:41 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 4, 2016 at 6:33 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: HOW is irrelevant to IF it's going to happen because IF you accept his 3 premises you already accept THAT it is going to happen. All this speculation of how it's going to happen in practice is the same mistake people make when they say that there can't be objective answers to morality in principle just because we may not be able to find any in practice.
No, it is relevant if one is talking about technology.[...]
How it's going to happen is irrelevant to if it's going to happen if you've already accepted that it's going to happen and if that it is going to happen is his only point and if how it's going to happen is not his point.