On Thursday, January 3, 2013 12:16:36 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 02 Jan 2013, at 20:13, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 12:57:34 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 02 Jan 2013, at 02:01, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> Chemotherapy Good or Evil? >> >> >> Better than nothing for most people having some disease. >> Worst than THC injection, plausibly for the same group of people. >> >> Here the Evil is only in the fact that minorities hides information from >> the majority, and this for the minority's interests. >> This leads to harmful consequences for the majority. >> >> Bruno >> > > I was thinking more of how chemotherapy is ambiguous as far as it being > something which can enhance life by inevitably diminishing it, but sure, > the politics of it is an issue also. > > If I had to get into a definition of good and evil I would go more toward > a political direction - senseless inequality of power tends to lead to > corruption and crime. > > > > I think it is in the other way. Corruption and crimes, above some > threshold of tolerance, leads to senseless inequality of power. > >
That's true too. Maybe it's more of a vicious circle. Generally for crimes to be tolerated implies that there already is an inequality of power. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/xhYMxitgmIEJ. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
