LimpyLoo Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 the whole point of a 'moral dilemma' is that you have to reckon with two extremely-difficult choices just saying "nope, turns out the aliens were just testing us" is just ducking the difficulty of it yes, torture is horrible but are there things that are worse than torture, whereby torture would be preferable? (saying "torture is bad" is not a solution to this) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Whenever moral philosophy encroaches on contemporary politics, people seem to go bananas. This is unfortunate, as ideally tools like moral philosophy would be used to help inform our choices in the world. Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote a highly-insightful essay on the matter called Politics is the Mind-Killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerWaschbar Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 yeah but limpy how dumb would you feel when after 24hrs you found out you were just on alien punk'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 yeah but limpy how dumb would you feel when after 24hrs you found out you were just on alien punk'd how dumb would you feel if you just assumed it was a prank but then the aliens killed everyone? (i mean, you'd be dead so you wouldn't feel anything) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerWaschbar Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 sounds like i wouldnt feel to bad pls quantify how dumb you feel you loose hot shot lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerWaschbar Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 shrodinger put two cats in a pillow case and swung it around his head. they were both happy and sad about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Why does the raccoon hate cats? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerWaschbar Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 (edited) its a realistic plan thought experiment Edited July 17, 2015 by DerWaschbar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Jan Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-5-BsWk-yU (thanks to tri for linking) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Surprisingly terrible from John Oliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 a (somewhat) golfer just returned from N Korea, and smuggled out over 100 photos. fascinating, but as always, extremely depressing.http://www.earthnutshell.com/100-photos-from-north-korea-part1/ fix'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 I really like the waiting room at Pyongyang Train Station Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterE Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 i hope aliens do destroy earth i hope they murder us all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Thanks for posting that link by the way. Really fascinating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 He's not a professional golfer. I don't know why that set of pictures would make you extremely depressed. It's the same garden variety pics that every tourist takes, with the exception of a few of people in trucks piled on crazily (like how they do in India, Myanmar, virtually every third-world country). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Jan Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 I don't know why that set of pictures would make you extremely depressed. It's the same garden variety pics that every tourist takes, with the exception of a few of people in trucks piled on crazily (like how they do in India, Myanmar, virtually every third-world country). Exactly my thoughts. Beautiful photo's nonetheless, but I've almost seen every location before in documentaries on YouTube, the DMZ, empty hotel / restaurant rooms, the subway, murals everywhere, park, funfair, the typical communist concrete buildings, etc.. The most suprising photo's of the lot were that of the drink with an actual snake in it and the North Korean buddhist, I always assumed NK was an atheistic state in which religion was not condoned (at least not in public), like in the USSR. Of course Buddhism is not as dogmatic of course, but there is still a very small Christian community too I see now. Also: Is it me or could this easily pass as a Fox News article? Hilarious how it's just the otherway around, says a lot of about the constant mud slinging from both countries. I literally read that last paragraph as if it was Bill O'Reilly who wrote it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 (edited) a professional golfer just returned from N Korea, and smuggled out over 100 photos. fascinating, but as always, extremely depressing. http://www.earthnutshell.com/100-photos-from-north-korea-part1/ Actually don't think they're particular depressing, it actually don't looks as awful as you might think, most of the photos makes the place look kind of peaceful in a strange way. But the ones of desolated Pyongyang and propaganda stuff are pretty gloomy though. But I know what you mean of course, it's surely not a place anybody would want to live. These photos don't paint the whole picture though, they're really great anyway. Edited August 7, 2015 by Npoess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sagan Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Elliott dreams of cultural enlightenment, and has nightmares of monotony and lost travel photographs. He's a poor golfer, software developer and has grown alongside one of Australia's oldest wombats. Off-the-grid destinations fascinate him. He'll traverse and document every country on earth. Eventually. a professional golfer just returned from N Korea, and smuggled out over 100 photos. fascinating, but as always, extremely depressing. Just messing with you. Actually a really good link with a bunch of interesting photos. Nice find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kymppinetti Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/07/asia/north-korea-time-zone/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 (edited) So Pyongyang is definitely nicer than Philadelphia, right? This is the impression I'm getting. Edited August 7, 2015 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 The most suprising photo's of the lot were that of the drink with an actual snake in it and the North Korean buddhist, I always assumed NK was an atheistic state in which religion was not condoned (at least not in public), like in the USSR. Of course Buddhism is not as dogmatic of course, but there is still a very small Christian community too I see now. The snake soju is not common in Korea, much more common in China. Religion is tolerated under strict state control as a propaganda means. The Christians especially. It serves a purpose so the leadership can say "look how tolerant we are". Of course if you go and try and distribute a bible...well it'll be the last we see if Herr Jan on these boards for a long time. So Pyongyang is definitely nicer than Philadelphia, right? This is the impression I'm getting. Cleaner lol. And less gun crime. I'm not sure if "nicer" is the correct adjective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Christopher Hitchens has a lot of colorful things to say about NK: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 The most suprising photo's of the lot were that of the drink with an actual snake in it and the North Korean buddhist, I always assumed NK was an atheistic state in which religion was not condoned (at least not in public), like in the USSR. Of course Buddhism is not as dogmatic of course, but there is still a very small Christian community too I see now. The snake soju is not common in Korea, much more common in China. had this in Vietnam also. It was everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Christopher HItchens opinions on North Korea are about as worthwhile as compson's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Christopher HItchens opinions on North Korea are about as worthwhile as compson's. lol how so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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