"The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
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"The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
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 RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 6:22 pm
It only exists to illuminate my position on the previous immortality dilemma we discussed. You refuse to tell me what you would do in that scenario, then?
RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 6:24 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2015 at 6:24 pm by Excited Penguin.)
I'm not frustrated. You'll either answer me or you won't, which will, in turn, affect my decision whether to continue this conversation with you or not.
RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 6:24 pm
I've already told you....limited to your constraints I'd give him the medicine and look for a way out. In reality I'd find one, in your scenario I wouldn't...but I don't do the shitty thing just because the right thing is hard or impossible.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 6:26 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2015 at 6:26 pm by Excited Penguin.)
We're not talking about reality here. We're talking about this imagined case in particular, and nothing else. And in that particular scenario there is no other way out. You need to make a choice. I presented you with your only two options. Will you tell me which it is you would take or not?
RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 6:27 pm
It's fairly simple. You either pull out the medicine or the knife. Tell me again which it is, as a definitive answer, without any allusions to a third option or a way out, and we'll move on.
RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 6:27 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2015 at 6:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I've answered you, and every modification or specification, more than once already...you're not going to get the answer you want by continuing to ask the question, or pretending that I haven't already answered, that has to be clear to you by now?
Steve gets his medicine...at what point have I been unclear?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 6:29 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2015 at 6:29 pm by Excited Penguin.)
Ok. You do realise that by giving him the medicine all three of us die of starvation?
RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 6:30 pm
It's your scenario...it's not as though it could end any way other than the one in which you hoped.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 6:30 pm
And you think that is the moral thing to do in that situation?
 RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Blah blah blah....
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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