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Thread: Would you undo the world?
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2009-09-03, 07:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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As long as I didn't know it was going to happen so I don't suffer beforehand, and as long as it happens a good while after 2012. I mean, if I don't know it's going to happen I'm not going to complain when it happens. At least wait til after October.
I don't agree that it's moral or anything, because free will and the chance for happiness and all that. You want to stop suffering, volunteer and give to charity and work on stopping suffering while letting others not suffer. If it's personal unhappiness or pain being suffered, there's help for that as well. If THAT doesn't work, try some assisted suicide, but don't bring the rest of us down.
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2009-09-03, 07:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Mr. Silver: Wasn't your degree in philosophy? It'd certainly explain why you're able to disprove Ichneumon step by step while the majority of us are just sputtering out the refutation and the conclusion.
horngeek: Anybody sufficiently powerful to retroactively end existence has no superiors, only peers.
Ichneumon: You are not my superior. As you are also even further out on the scale of callousness than I am, I'd not like to be able to call you a peer either. Will let other people be the judge of that.
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2009-09-03, 07:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm honestly quite surprised how someone could call me callous while my sole motivation is the well being of others.
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2009-09-03, 08:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Because you refuse to accept that others might have a say about whether or not they'd like to be completely unmade.
And no, what you're advocating doesn't futher the well-being of others. It's essentially an ostrich's tactics on a cosmic scale - whoops, the world isn't ideal, so let's sweep it all under the carpet by unmaking it. It's not the way to do things in everyday life, and it certainly doesn't work in relation to the entire mankind.My FFRP characters. Avatar by Ashen Lilies. Sigatars by Ashen Lilies, Gullara and Purple Eagle.
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2009-09-03, 08:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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And that's where your logic hits a brick wall, bonces off it, gets warped in a time stream and then stops at a bar and gets severely drunk Since there would be no "others"!
(Edit: Why do this reasoning make me think of Judge Dredd?
...I remember now; the original Judge Death story arc: An alternative world where the law enforcement realized that all crimes were committed by the living, so they made life itself a crime.)Last edited by Avilan the Grey; 2009-09-03 at 08:29 AM.
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2009-09-03, 08:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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So instead of trying to make the world as good as possible - which you could do if you had the ability to unmake it - you'd rather, metaphorically speaking, sweep it under the carpet and pretend it never happened because it's not "ideal"? Nothing is ever ideal and never will be, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
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2009-09-03, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-03, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-03, 08:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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I understood the metaphor. I'm not sure if it would be cowardly however, as it would take much courage (and propobly selflessness to do something like that, when you have such great powers) to decide to do something as noble as that, particularly because you would never, as you said, be able to achieve an ideal like that in any other way.
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2009-09-03, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-03, 08:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's because your concept of the well-being of others is so completely incompatible with other people's idea of their own well-being. For example, if I decided that suffering just makes you stronger, and then did everything in my power to make you suffer as much as possible, you might call me callous, even if my only motivation was your well-being. (Note that there have been more than a few novels with exactly this idea as a premise!) It's merely the opposite side of the same coin.
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2009-09-03, 08:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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That makes sense. I did understood that the term "callousness" was used subjectively and it was the only logical use, of it. Thanks.
Okay, now I can see this thread getting locked. Was mentioning a few of history's atrocities really needed? We can all think of things that happened in history to try to make it better, but you yourself said it would never become ideal.
It's completely your choice whether or not you want to be a part of this debate. If you feel you are waisting your time, feel free not to continue.Last edited by Ichneumon; 2009-09-03 at 09:00 AM.
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2009-09-03, 09:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-03, 09:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah...
If somone actually did retroactively destroy the universe, I would call them many things. Selfless would not be among them.
Actually, no, I wouldn't. They just did the equivalent of killing me.
No, those atrocities only make non-existence better if you view the to be no point to the universe anyway. I believe that there is a point to everything.
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2009-09-03, 09:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Undoing the universe has its perks, but waiting for it to achieve heat death is a lot easier. And then, you have the assurance that not only is everything ever over, but nothing will ever happen again.
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2009-09-03, 09:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Mr. Silver: Wasn't your degree in philosophy? It'd certainly explain why you're able to disprove Ichneumon step by step while the majority of us are just sputtering out the refutation and the conclusion
I know you don't, but that doesn't mean its consistant. Most people suffering from delusions (i.e. beliefs which are not true) will still remain adamantly convinced of the validity of these delusions even when presented with evidence to the contrary and shown the flaws and contradictions within their own reasoning. A strong belief is like that, it makes it harder to accept things that conflict with it.
For one other conflict, you claim thar making a decision for someone else without their consent is wrong (it's using someone as an ends). Yet, if you were to awake with the originally mentioned chronomatic powers you would unmake everyone without giving a thought for their own opinion. Indeed the unmaking of everyone not in a state of unbearable suffering would be using them as a means to your own end.
I am not sure why I would believe I am less likely to be right depending on how much other people share that same opinion. My moral conclusions are based on deduction mostly, which you could call "logical", at least when you agree some people might disagree about what the axioms are.
That's also quite ironic, as my drive for preventing suffering and therefore preventing the creation of the univerise are only driven by a care for the well being of others.
This is not a rational way of thinking.
Well, you are right that it is about not wanting to be responsible for the creation of a non ideal world.
If you would awake tomorrow with the chronomanctic powers to undo everything, EVERYTHING, the entire univerise and make sure it never got into existence.Last edited by Mx.Silver; 2009-09-03 at 09:42 AM.
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2009-09-03, 09:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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The reason why it's so incredibly important is that you're basing your logic on this assumption: the suffering of humanity is too great to live with. Suffering however is a relative phenomenon. This is indisputable, like all emotional states sensitivity too it and tolerance of it vary between each individual personality. If you were making a claim about the empircal existence of a particular object or similar then yes, majority opinion is irrelevent. Your reasoning however is based upon an assumption made about the emotional condition of the majority. For this to have any weight at all you need to have some idea of what this condition is which you very clearly don't. In fact, you don't even seem to care about it.
Are you claiming I'm delusional?
It's an interesting and amusing idea that morality can lead to ironic outcomes, however that doesn't give me any reason to think their is something wrong or flawed about the reasoning per se. You did say some things that are certainly questionable about this reasoning however.
For one other conflict, you claim thar making a decision for someone else without their consent is wrong (it's using someone as an ends). Yet, if you were to awake with the originally mentioned chronomatic powers you would unmake everyone without giving a thought for their own opinion. Indeed the unmaking of everyone not in a state of unbearable suffering would be using them as a means to your own end.
That isn't a responsibility for its creation. That is a responsibility for its continued exsitence. You aren't creating it. You aren't involved in creating it, you just happen to have the power to destroy it.
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2009-09-03, 10:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Every time, I lose a little respect...
No, I wouldn't do it. Why? Cause I'm not a douche, that's why.
As someone who has suffered, no I would not do it.
As someone who has seen suffering, no, I would not do it.
As someone who has, in his life, thought about and at least once mad an attempt at suicide, no. I would not do it.
As someone who has seen joy, I would not do it. As someone who has seen the joy on the face of a mother holding a laughing baby, I would not do it.
As someone who has experienced the joy of pleasant human interaction, of owning pets, of doing a double flip into a pool, of the basic pleasure of interaction with the basic physics that govern us, watching a stone bounce down a cliff, watching liquid poured from one container to another, feeling an arrow fly from a bow into a target, who as experienced love both platonic and romantic, physical and purely emotional, and knows that the joy of these things is deeper, stronger, with greater opportunities than sorrow and suffering can ever have, no, I would not do it.
It's been said a million times in the thread already; the joy of life, in general, outweighs the suffering of existance. This is not something a government tells us, or something television broadcasts through subliminal messaging, it is something we feel and know through experience, so it's not a big conspiricy and we're all deluded into thinking it when really we're all sheep who don't see the big picture and we're obviously morally and logically inferior, no, this is fact.
I've suffered a lot, sure. Not as much as some, obviously. I've had injuries and torment and pain both physical and emotional. At times, mostly due to chemical imbalances, I've wanted to kill myself to stop experiencing any suffering. I've stopped myself or been stopped each time, obviously, because I'm here to rant at you about this. But to eradicate all of the joy I've experienced, and that I know others have experienced, to be rid of suffering? I'm neither that deluded, that arrogant, or that convinced of my moral superiority.
Also, the passive-agressiveness in many posts only weaken your argument's persuasiveness. I won't go into what appears to be an attempt at using complex sentence structure and diction for whatever reason.
Edit: Holy snapcrackle! AND pop! Mr. Silver, sign my T-shirt. Make it out to 'Anuan, my biggest fan.'
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2009-09-03, 10:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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If I woke up with whatever the powers were called I'd do whatever I could to alleviate suffering without destroying the entire world.
Ichneumon. destroying the entire world because one person will suffer if you don't is completely illogical and is the exact opposite of any moral system I've ever heard of that makes any sense. Heck if you have the power to destroy the world you probably have the power to alleviate their suffering.
however. I think an irrevocable truth of life is there are some people you can't help.Last edited by Mystic Muse; 2009-09-03 at 10:26 AM.
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2009-09-03, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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it would depend on how much I was able to undo. if it was undo it all or undo nothing, I'd probably just undo nothing.
besides, wouldn't technically, if I undid existence, I would also accidentally undo my own? o.o
anyhoot, if I could undo the existence of some things, I definitely would. but all or nothing, it'd be nothing."The Mormons were right."
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2009-09-03, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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You know what Ichneumon, forget about my earlier post where I said I was concerned for your welfare. In the past several pages it has become clear that you're a egotistic monomaniac unwilling to consider for an instant any viewpoint on the issue contrary to your own. You use flawed, condescending verbiage to attempt to refute others and promote your own irrevocably flawed theory. I fail to understand why you even came here to start this discussion, as it has become increasingly clear that you have no interest in opposing viewpoints. (Unless it was a grab at attention or public mastrubation, in which case: congrats you've succeded in wasting other people's time, good for you.)
You use terms like logic, morality, causality, and others; but I honestly believe that you have no concept of what these words mean you use them so poorly.
I've concluded that you're either a very young, very immature individual who has a great deal to still learn and experience in life, or that you're an utterly depraved delusional person who is in a great need of professional help. I hope its the former.
In closing, I'll leave you with a maxim I learned at a young age: "Some kind of help are the kind of help that helping's all about; and some kinds of help are the kind of help we all can do without."
Your kind of help is the second kind. You will find no sane person who wants your help in this matter. Not only do I hope you never gain these mythical powers, but I also hope you are never put into a position of authority over any other living thing. Or you know what? Maybe you do need a kid to teach you something about joy, responsibility and fulfillment in life. Then maybe you'll abandon this foolish philosophy.
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2009-09-03, 10:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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That's it, no cosmic powers for you.
I have suffered. I was born into poverty, and I have lived in poverty. It was a western poverty, but it was still poverty. I have had pain, raw physcial pain. I have felt fear, panic. I have felt the deep weight of loneliness. I have felt rejection from several sources. I have felt loss and mourning.
And yet.
And yet, I have seen beauty. I have been loved, and loved in return. I have felt the exhilaration of accomplishment, the joy of creation. I have felt comfort, contentment, and adoring bliss. I have felt the camaraderie of team work and the satisfaction of a job well done. I have faced fears and come out into sunlight.
Have I had a happy life, on the whole? So far, no. But you wish to take from me, not only those times of uncertainty and doubt, but also all that which has made it wonderful. If I and the universe had never existed, I never would have seen the play of a brass sunset over rippling lake waters from underneath. A simple thing, yet of captivating wonder, that touched my young soul and said 'This is beauty'.
Don't take my sunset.Last edited by Ravens_cry; 2009-09-03 at 10:54 AM.
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I'm not going to continue this discussion. I've not been condescending or insulting, yet in the past view posts, you've been. It was my mistake to believe we could have an philosophical discussion on these boards without accusing others of using "flawed logic" or insulting them. I'm out.
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2009-09-03, 10:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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I have a feeling if I got these powers I'd get on here and ask you all what I should do with them.
except there are a few things I don't think I'd need to ask about.
oh. here's my opinion of the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0Last edited by Mystic Muse; 2009-09-03 at 11:35 AM.
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