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Originally written by Arenax:

Perhaps more separate, but definitely less valuable. C and C++ account for somewhere around 80% of all commercial applications--which are the ones that matter. JavaScript is largely used by l33t h4xx0rz who want to hide their link locations.

(Yes, I know, there are many valid uses of JavaScript. But I haven't found one I can either do without or do better in something else.)

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Originally written by YooDoo Man:

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Originally written by Thuryl:

If you think "would you do it?" is an equivalent question to "is it right to do it?", then either you consider yourself to be a perfectly ethical person all the time or your conception of ethics isn't much like mine. To put it another way, the question was not intended to be which course of action is ethical, but whether or not to act ethically at all when doing so would involve considerable harm to someone important to you.

Here's another one that perhaps illustrates the point more vividly:

You're offered an opportunity to double the value of everything you own: a second house, a second car (if you have one), twice as much money in your bank account, etc. However, if you accept the offer, someone, somewhere in the world, a complete stranger to you, will die. Do you take the deal?

(The sting in the tail of this one, of course, is that by giving away all your possessions, or selling them and giving the proceeds to charities, you could easily save much more than one life. How, if at all, is refusing to do this morally different to accepting the above offer?)

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Originally written by 4614 and 4808:

I still don't know how all those terrorists continue to operate inside the country, though.

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Originally written by Kelandon:

It was actually quite tricky. I appreciated it. But then, I never played E3.

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Originally written by Kelandon:

It was actually quite tricky. I appreciated it. But then, I never played E3.

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