Message from @Maw
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or both, yes. One does not exclude the other.
Subjectivity != No such thing as superiority
Unless by going back you were able to get reinforcements and provided the necessary intel to ensure his rescue and probably mine because I made a rash decision... It's all relative.
Do you not think you're a better person than Stalin?
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.
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.
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
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
Hey.... I actually understood that one without googling it.
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