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Back in high school, we learned a method of testing things. I'm pretty sure it has a formal name, but I don't remember it. Take the action done to each extreme: Ex. Someone kills an innocent person. Extreme 1 = Everyone kills an innocent person. The society could not surrvice there for it...

Random is just another way of saying "beyond our ability to understand". One of the fundamental principles of the universe is cause and effect. Everything can be traced back to a previous cause (except for the first, but that's where theology takes over). As far as humans go, there is a...

Your answer can be found in our Declaration of Independence: America, and all People, have an obligation to help one another. Not to start a flame war, but take Iraq for example. America would be obligated to help them become a democracy when the majority of the people desire to abolish...

Cloning would diminish the value of human life. If you get you hand cut off, you could just clone yourself and attach the clone's hand onto yours. Maybe you'll put him/it in a freezer until you need more parts. Medically, there would be no problems doing this, the hand would not be rejected by...

Relating it to evolution and survival of the fittest: Would a species be able to survive if it felt bad every time it ate? The same thing can be said with sex. A species would not reproduce if sex made it feel awful.

How voluntary could it be? If you were asked to be tortured so that countless others would have a utopia, wouldn't you probably feel obligated to do it even if you didn't really want to. If there was ever a war, and I was drafted, I would not want to do it, but feel obligated to go. With such a...

Rader said there was no way do determine the center from an undefined space. The center is defineable because there is still a spatial dimension. Just no time. I wouldn't call it an assumtion, but that is a major point in my theory. Time can be traced back to previous transformations of the...

What do you mean by "time and space as we know it"? Without time, before time and space, you have only space. Space and Time cannot evolve from nothing( as you put it. I would say everthing) without time. The evolution, or transition, is impossible without time. Unless your just saying there was...

Time is defined as this condition: "A follows B". When the condition is no longer true, it ceases to be called time. Therefore, A can be the first condition of time, but not the first exsistance of anything else.

Belive it or not, people tend to have different opinions when it comes to morals. I would like to believe that morals are objective, but for some reason other people don't find my morals to be objective enough for them. Everyone is this way. In order to have a society, we need to establish what...

Physical space is chaged from one configuration to another. The process and rate at which this takes place is called time and typically measured in seconds. B changes into C and C changes into D. In order for D to exsist, C must exsist. And for C to exsist, B must exsist. Logically, we can infer...

This whole discussion is completely unnecessary. The answer is simple. Time does not exsist. :confused: Time is a logical contradiction. For every cause, there is an effect. And if time exsists, when did it start? Logically, if time exsists, there has to be a time when time did not exsist...

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/dunnweb/rprnts.omelas.html Its a very strange story. I suppose you would have to quantify the amount of suffering and joy. Life requires work. We need energy in order to live. The only utopian society is a society without people. Work must be invested in...

Freewill pertains only to the mind. You have the will to jump out the window and fly, but you lack the ability. We were given free will to will anything we want. But we were placed in a world of limited abilities and confined to the laws of this world. From this we get the popular phrase "The...

You can not get something out of nothing. Cause and Effect cannot be applied to God. God is outside of time. In our lives, we observe time. Since we are subject to Cause and Effect, we can trace things back to a Prime Mover, the first effect without a cause. We cannot say that God created...