Do you not think you're a better person than Stalin?

@Maw better at what?

We'll go with helping people.

@TaLoN132 No, I just run away in fear. F- my buddy. Might make me morally inferior. One can make that argument.

@Maw I have done very little for humanity. Stalin took russia out of the dark ages.

and won a war.

At what cost?

No. The industrial revolution did that.

at a massive cost for those who didnt make it, @Maw

I would hope that I would be and I conduct myself with the aspiration of that being true, but I think it's dangerous to think in absolutes. And I am afraid that if I were to accept the mantle of superiority, I would lose the motivation of acting in a manner to attain it.

@DrSammyD I thought that was in the 1800s?

Ah, so you think your better than people who think in absolutes

I think you could argue that a literal potato did more benefit than Stalin did.

yes you could

Come on, @Doc... I was giving you an out.

but I would not call myself better than a potato either, @Maw

@TaLoN132 Thanks, man! Good of you. 😉

I certainly think that my life can help more people than a single potato, that's the difference.

The idea is that the potato would lack the influence to change something for the negative in the same way Stalin did.

@Maw I disagree. Potatoes kept Ireland alive, and every potato has that potential.

I'm talking singular.

It's the idea that sometimes nothing is better than the alternative.

singular existence is a counterfact.

And by nothing, I mean literally nothing.

everything must be seen in context, except in the lab.

I said it was dangerous, but I do believe in some absolutes. Things like violent crimes being bad and such.

and in vitro does not reflect in vivo

@TaLoN132 if so, I am a bigger relativist than you. 😄

Hey.... I actually understood that one without googling it.

@Maw Every potato carries the potential to feed millions.

Its the "Magic" of biology.

Im not sure I do.

So in "goodness" I would rate a potato above myself.

Think about that the next time you eat fries. 😄

Gotta mod, but you're kinda misrepresenting my point.

no, im deducting based on it.

Happy modding, sir!

Does anyone have a NYT account, by chance? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/business/coronavirus-vaccine-astrazeneca-oxford.html

OOps! 😄

Thanks @TaLoN132

massively significant