(August 13, 2015 at 3:52 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(August 13, 2015 at 3:47 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: We weren't talking about cruelty though. Let's not jump to extremes so fast. We were merely talking about being nice. I don't see though why you see this as such an important quality that it would be one of the only three you would chose everyone to have enhanced through pharmaceutical means.
Viruses are not pharmaceuticals, but we need not worry about that. Being nice is important because otherwise murderers and other bad people will just be made more effectively bad by improving their intelligence and reasonableness. Intelligence gives someone more possibilities, and in the case of a bad person, that is a bad thing. A bad person can fuck you over more effectively if he is intelligent than if he is too stupid to be able to figure out how to fuck you over so effectively.
I mistook what you initially said. I corrected myself in the meanwhile though. But I see you still didn't get the point about niceness that I'm making. Not being nice doesn't equal being a bad person and certainly not a murderer. It's this kind of simple-minded thinking that I despise, more than anything else, sorry to say. I'll try and be reasonable with you though. Please explain to me how come you thought you told me anything new here, and why are you so fast to change the subject or misunderstand what I'm actually talking about? Please address what it is that you mean by niceness.
