(February 18, 2014 at 6:59 pm)bennyboy Wrote: You don't yet understand that being a man sometimes means doing wrong in order to protect those under your care from being wronged.That may be true in a more general sense (ie, the man who steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, or assaults an intruder to his home before determining intent). I see the dilemma in this topic as more of a test of our reaction or approach. There is almost no context, just a situation, and there are two primary questions, as I see it:
- do you react to the question right away, or do you take time to think it through?
- do you react emotionally (projecting forward and imagining the consequences of each action) or logically (treating it as a math problem)?
These are linked, in that I think the less time you take to consider the question, the more likely you are to make the emotional choice.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
