Hi Richard Ruquist
How so ?
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
12/20/2012
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From: Richard Ruquist
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Time: 2012-12-20, 12:45:56
Subject: Re: Re: The pro-life paradox
Roger,
I am amused the a believer like you
does not factor in your thinking
the existence of the afterlife.
Richard
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
There is a gray area called quality of life.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
12/20/2012
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From: Bruno Marchal
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Time: 2012-12-20, 05:12:10
Subject: Re: The pro-life paradox
On 19 Dec 2012, at 17:01, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 17 Dec 2012, at 17:49, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
I define good as that which enhances life and evil
as that which diminishes it.
Is pro-life activism enhancing life or diminishing life?
Some pro-life doctor are against euthanasia, even passive euthanasia, with
the result that they transform dying patient into machines. But most of them
are naive believer, and as such, they disbelieve comp, and so their pro-life
activity begins to be contradictory.
The question is: does an artificial, or even virtual body, enhance life
or suppress life?
Bruno
That's tricky.
The aristotelean pro-life doctor does not believe she/he is turning the
dying patient into a machine. That Doctor thinks they are saving the
universe from one of its fundamental properties: death, entropy. I don't
know if most of them are naive believer in the sense that most doctors in
this domain are well aware that it is a loosing battle, and I guess outing
yourself as pro-euthanasia carries some heavy implications in your day to
day practice, interaction, and judgement from peers, directors, and
employers. I guess, most would be cooler with this if they could. So
naive believer, yeah maybe some, but more I'd guess live in fear of
getting their voice heard.
To tackle the question straight-on:
1) depends on manufacturer, market, price and warranty conditions, and the
local universe. You did remember to submit the appropriate forms before
rental of Bruno, didn't you? I say this, because it seems like sometimes
you forget with this kind of question :)
I am not sure I get the point. Mine was only that the pro-life doctor will
transform people into machine (as they do already somehow), and that can
contradict the general anti-mechanist prejudice of many pro-life activists.
2) Heidegger was just joking. Nobody was thrown; he just got a bit of
nausea after signing all the soul-body binding contracts and wants
modification of warranty terms. I don't know whether his appeal was heard by
the courts, any of you?
Lol. But still don't see the point. keep in mind that logicians are simple
mind :)
3) But after flying for platonic infinities through every possible universe
as a disembodied soul eye with infinite memory at any speed you wished, you
would go sign up for another round to be entangled with some strange
universe physically again and push the format disk button once again and
agree to all constraints, just for novelty's sake and say sh*t, it's boring
here... but I am no chicken, I choose a local universe where aristoteleans
are winning, just to make it more interesting, because the platonic
localities are too much already like here...also, I'll choose one where
matter is really convincing and makes us unable to define life properly, so
that I can pose this question in a forum someday, and confuse the others a
bit, hehe.
OK. But for once, my question was terrestrial. Of course such question makes
less global sense in Platonia, but can still make sense locally, even there.
Bruno
:)
Cowboy
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