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Originally written by Jeran Korak:

And one more thing: Who is Monty Haul?

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Originally written by Jeran Korak:

Just one question: What would happen if that fuel entered the Atmosphere?

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Originally written by Diprosopus:

Citizen Kane was much fun.

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Originally written by Dikiyoba:

It's important to remember that mass school shootings are infrequent--they're just guaranteed to make national news when they do occur. So any preventive measure has to be cost-effective and extremely convienient to be worth it.

Also, to a certain extent, the more often emergency measures are taken, the less effective they become. My high school abused the lockdown to the point where it was a joke. If there had been an actual incident, it would be hard to get everyone to take it seriously until too late. Being complacent may be worse than being unprepared.

Dikiyoba.

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Originally written by Drew:

Please just use simpler language. Believe it or not, it will make you sound smarter, because you'll be making better sense.

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Originally written by The Almighty Doer of Stuff:

Randomizer, are you sure you don't have a virus (and I'm not talking herpes)?

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Originally written by Restoration Action Figure:

ASR isn't controversial though.

Great chart. One comment: isn't 'poor' typically a worse gradation than 'bad'? I always remember excellent, good, fair, bad, poor from school (and Angband pseudo-ID).

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Originally written by Diprosopus:

I simply wished to pose the dilemma which I humbly suspect a discontent poses to Kantianism: Can those who act contrarily to treating humanity as an end really be called irrational? People find themselves in situations where they would have to violate their impartially ethical commitments to avoid personal detriment. Is expecting someone to stay committed to her ethics really unreasonable? If it is, then I fail to see what authority that ethical system could claim.

(If it's reasonable–which I doubt–then the CI permits the dissenter to object at the same time it permits the others to act on their maxim in spite of the dissenter. And yet, it's not difficult for people to agree that both parties cooperating in a prisoner's dilemma is preferable to both parties defecting, and so by the CI's own standards, it must forbid violating the objections of rational dissenters to its maxims.)

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Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

Hur. You can do better than that.

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Of course if you're saying that following common sense is an ethical system unto itself, that's... something, I suppose. At least, it would certainly be a courageous position to hold. :)

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Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

I could expect a response time of 30 minutes if there was a fire.

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If you suggest that it is okay for me to own guns, but not someone who lives in a suburb, then you are creating classes of people. Some citizens will have some rights, and some have others. Unfortunately we created this principled land under the assumption that we were all created with the same rights. A step toward partitioned rights is a step toward slavery and eventual total erosion of property rights.

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Originally written by Restoration Action Figure:

Is this true? I haven't encountered this elephant before, and I can't find it anywhere in the wikipedia article on the US electoral college. I thought electors were appointed by winning parties on a per-election basis.

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Originally written by Zeviz:

However, if assumption #2 is wrong, both GR and CI would lead to an empty set of rules for others, so the result would still be the same. (CI, as I understand it, doesn't say that you have to formulate rules for others. It just says that if you do make rules for others, you better follow them yourself, which is the same as conclusion I get from GR applying assumption #1.)

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Originally written by Drew:

Unspeakable things have already been done to "The Legend of Zelda" on the small screen.

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Originally written by Xel'Raga:

BURN!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally written by Randomizer:

That's the advantage of situational ethics in that you can always justify your actions even if you do different ones when the same problem occurs. Other ethical systems will always have exceptions or you can find an absurbist reduction to make them fail.

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Originally written by Xel'Raga the Slaughtering Omni:

I'm afraid they can, think about it, which one to do, and if so would they make the other ones, mind you, link doesn't talk, so it would be different, I personally just don't think its worth it.

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Originally written by Kelandon:

Your "second example," i.e., "then I pose the dilemma (as does Mr. Thuryl) of the two foes who request that you assist them in fighting the other"? I can't find the antecedent to this statement in this topic, so I can't say for sure what you're talking about, but the GR doesn't imply that you must enslave yourself to the whims of others. If you're in a situation of helping one person to the disadvantage of another or helping the second to the disadvantage of the first, then a reasonable application of the GR is that it prohibits helping either one, since by doing so you would be doing to the other something that you wouldn't want done to yourself.

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Originally written by Diprosopus:

Even if you pursue that which is good (i.e. what you want) first, is it inconceivable to say that it's right to pursue that which is good? You seem to be advocating ethical egoism.

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How many major European countries have disbanded their armies and replaced Department of Defence with Department of Peace? That's not the only "non-standard" thing Kucinich proposed, but that's the one I've heard about the most lately.

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One needs to examine not merely the physical action being performed but all of the ramifications of the action in order to analyze it under the GR.

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Originally written by Diprosopus:

Why are you people writing (and reading) so many of each other's pages about retro, shareware RPGs? Could not your time and energy be better spent?

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