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    Fear of Death: A Philosophical Inquiry into Coping with Uncertainty

    This kind of mentaility you can find in upper and upper-middle class people. They think they are relative kings, anyone wasting there time or irretates them should have a grusome punishment, just as a king did when met disrespect in the midages.
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    Who Do You Trust Most? Reasons & Qualities

    Trusting a person or trusting a system A question remains on the subject, What would you trust the most, a person of your choosing or a system of your choosing. For example if one is hospitilized and needs major surgery, where is the trust, the hostpital system (and the society system in...
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    Fear of Death: A Philosophical Inquiry into Coping with Uncertainty

    I'll second that, adding that I do not think the big world religions threatening with Hell for eternety if one does not believe; it certaintly haven't helped. There are though, people who take death very camly, see www.exit.ch (You got to read swiss-german to understand it, it is a suicide...
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    Who Do You Trust Most? Reasons & Qualities

    Atleast she is caught quickly. :smile:
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    Who Do You Trust Most? Reasons & Qualities

    No it said most, therefore it is very hard to find one who is the top kind person who also is the top moral guy. If not most, then of course you can have a moral kind loving smart reliable guy.
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    Who Do You Trust Most? Reasons & Qualities

    Would you date and marry a sincere woman serial killer?
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    Who Do You Trust Most? Reasons & Qualities

    If you knew of a very reliable pedophile, never failes a molestation, woule you trust this person to babysit your kids?
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    Who Do You Trust Most? Reasons & Qualities

    I trust the person with most goodness.
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    What Are the True Implications of Copyright and Ownership?

    I am currently philosophying about copyrights and ownership. What I want is to have general laws of ownership. Take music for example, The music creator has ownership of his/her music. What does this ownership mean? Ususally ownership means exclusive use rights. This creator can copy...
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    What's the IT Term for Providing Instructions to Find Information?

    Problem: I have heard of a word(s) with the meaning: "instructions on how to find information", so that instead of telling someone a piece of information straight away, one tells how to find the information. For example: Someone asks, I want to eat a great cookie. The answerer gives not the...
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    Is libertarianism the key to individual freedom and societal prosperity?

    First, what happens here in Sweden is that criminals don't say "The Devil made me do it", they say "I am what I am (inherited or nurtured), and its not my fault". This statement (the last quote) places moral pressure on judges and jury - they have to agreee to some respect. Now this is a...
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    Is it ethical to press the button?

    I wonder what proportion of the public would press the red button. In a decade or two this will be an issue of humanitys survival, since the scientific tools to eridicate humanity will have become cheap enough for a group of few to kill the entire human race. What am I talking about...
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    Defining Good: A Subjective Perspective

    To me, goodness is the following: Priorities according to, 1. Releive suffering. 2. Make life highly valuable. Simple as that. or maybe not that simple. Goodness might be something metaphysical complex mysterious consciousness. Something very hard or impossible to pinpoint exacly.
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