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  • #32
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    It doesn't matter what you bring into the foray, all of that is better than it was even 50 years ago. And the murder rate in primitive societies was 20-30 times the world rate now. Etc.

    I won't bring the thread off topic by discussing this here any further, if you actually believe any of that than fair dues :)

    I tend to believe empirical facts presented logically by the best scientists in the field who have done enormous research on the issue. Rather than gut feeling.


  • #33
    Indricotherium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭Indricotherium


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    It doesn't matter what you bring into the foray, all of that is better than it was even 50 years ago. And the murder rate in primitive societies was 20-30 times the world rate now. Etc.

    I won't bring the thread off topic by discussing this here any further, if you actually believe any of that than fair dues :)

    If the thread goes there naturally then that's the way it goes.

    Transporters are just a launch pad for the convo.


  • #34
    komodosp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭komodosp


    Indricotherium wrote: »
    How do you think the religions of the world would react to a device that would ultimately link matter and energy as one and in doing so reduce human life and its will or soul to a series of pre programmed chemical sequences.

    Probably in the same way as many other things around nowadays - At first everyone is against them, but then people use them and report it to be OK and eventually, everyone uses them - even members of religion - despite the fact that the religion itself says it's wrong, but there are still fundamentalists in the religion who preach about not using them but are seen as crackpots - some of them even bomb teleporter factories and the like, or assault teleporter operators, calling them murderers (think abortion clinics in the US). Even the non violent ones are cricitised for trying push their beliefs on the rest of us.

    The philisophical debate goes on about what the definition of a single being is, but we use them anyway, although there is probably a law that states nobody can be forced to use them.

    And on the Internet... millions of people whose opinions nobody cares about just go on and on and on and on...


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