At 09:48 AM 4/27/00 -0700, Bill wrote:
> > physical intelligence, etc.,
>
>Be serious. <G> This phrase was invented by do-gooders for the purpose of
>elevating the academic status of a specific group of people who
>consistantly score a standard deviation below the rest of the human race
>on every written test ever devised.
>
> >I don't have to "condone suffering", to recognize it as an essential
>piece of
> >reality. Without evil, what would be the point of making moral choices?
>
> >Indeed, no one would have a choice, and I regard a life without choices
> >intolerable. Without suffering, what would be meaning of joy? Without
>
> >challenge and the possibility of failure, what would be the satisfaction
>of
> >achievement? Without death, would life have value?
>
>This is basically a religious statement. Suffering is basically the
>stimulation of a particular set of nerves and joy is the stimulation of a
>different set. Suffering does not have a moral component unless a human
>is intentionally doing the stimulating.
>
>There isn't any experiment or data which demonstrates the existance of
>the concept of free will.
But, surely you contradict yourself by writing the above statement.
>Life only has value in a religious context. (economically and socially,
>some humans have more value as compost than as living entities)
I hope your joking.
Brian Harper
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
The Ohio State University
"One never knows, do one?"
-- Fats Waller
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