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Old 09-20-2004, 12:02 PM   #41
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Does this question have a point? Why am I sentenced to death?
Why was Socrates sentenced to death ? It does not matter. If it makes you feel better, it's because you were falsely accused and wrongfully convicted by a jury of your peers. The sentence has to be carried out. Choose.
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Old 09-20-2004, 01:29 PM   #42
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All I see is the quote button. Where do I find the edit button ?
OK, I found the Edit button. Now I have to learn how to use it.
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Old 09-20-2004, 04:19 PM   #43
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If you were sentenced to death by the State and given one of two choices, as was Socretes, which would you choose ?

Socrates was given the choice of drinking a glass of hemlock or bannishment for life. Your choices are death by slow starvation or one minute in the gas chamber. Choose.
The Idea of death (non-existence) does not bother me ... the idea of pain / discomfort/loss of dignity & capicity does ... therfore .. I would choose the quicker method .. plus I could make an effort to leave one last definite gesture ... not sure yet what this would be ...


I overrode my (baser) instincts and actually made an effort to answer both honestly and with some thought ...
so your follow up better be worth it :Cheeky:
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Old 09-20-2004, 04:26 PM   #44
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I choose starvation. On the third night, I complete my tunnel, crawl to freedom, and live happily ever after as a Charter Boat Captain in Mexico.
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Old 09-20-2004, 08:50 PM   #45
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The Idea of death (non-existence) does not bother me ... the idea of pain / discomfort/loss of dignity & capicity does ... therfore .. I would choose the quicker method .. plus I could make an effort to leave one last definite gesture ... not sure yet what this would be ...


I overrode my (baser) instincts and actually made an effort to answer both honestly and with some thought ...
so your follow up better be worth it :Cheeky:
I intend to make a philosophical point that will shock you.
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Old 09-20-2004, 09:32 PM   #46
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Well hurry up with it! I'm sitting on the edge of my seat just WAITING to see what amazing and ground breaking point you are making.
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Old 09-20-2004, 09:40 PM   #47
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So I can prove my point that I am not despicable.
Out of curiousity, some background on the comment quoted? Prove you're not despicable?

My spouse indicated the chamber.

I'd choose banishment. You never know what might happen ..... and there might be something to read as well.
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Old 09-20-2004, 10:09 PM   #48
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I found what this was about, or sort of: it's this thread in GRD. On page two.

Our mate Angyson is attempting to prove that he's not despicable because he thinks the holocaust is not so bad, really. Or in fact, is quite OK with him. So if you agree that being quickly gassed is somehow nicer than starving slowly as a Ukrainian peasant, or being killed in battle, then he's not despicable. I fail to see the point of comparing all these evils. You can't prove that something is not evil by showing that other things are also evil.

Here's the rather unpleasant post. (Sorry, I haven't yet figured out to link a specific post)
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Yahzi, it occured to me that God said the Hebrews are a stiff-necked people and that He was going to send a nation to the north agaist them, a ruthless people who would hunt them down and smash the slulls of their babies against the wall.

Nostradamus predicted the arrival of Hisler. The bible predicted the arrival of the German nation in a conflict with the Jews. If the Holocust [I hate that word ] was God's will for the Hebrew nation, so be it. No, I do not have any sympathy if it was God's will. I believe it was.
 
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Personally I would not want to die, and would take up arms against the person who dictated I must do so.
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Old 09-21-2004, 12:27 PM   #50
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Does this question have a point? Why am I sentenced to death?
I have already dealt with this question on a previous post. It is irrelevant. The State has condemned you to death by starvation or the gas chamber.

Make your choice.
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