Forum: Beginners Questions
03-16-2007, 12:39 PM
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Views: 66
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
03-06-2007, 01:40 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 375
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
03-06-2007, 01:22 AM
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Replies: 115
Views: 1,363
Re: Obligatory Shannon quote
Yes, but even if the world is not deterministic, I think that still everything that happens, (including people's) actions is governed by the laws of physics, whether the particle is here or there, or...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
03-05-2007, 05:32 PM
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Replies: 115
Views: 1,363
Re: My Basic Thought On Free Will
I think true pure free will doesn't exist. Meaning that, assuming that the world we live in follows the laws of physics, then everything that happens is the result of prior events (without exception,...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
03-05-2007, 03:41 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 375
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
03-05-2007, 03:39 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 375
Re: Most Explicit Animal Axiom Question Yet
To me its a question of values. And whats the value of a human life (good man or bad man) vs. an animal life.
Well, I'll take my human life. Its worth to me is infinite against an animals life,...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
03-05-2007, 02:50 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 718
Re: Idea For New Forum
I think its a great idea, because if I need help with a problem. I would think about this website instead of trying to find a website specific for my problem. Although I guess I could go to google,...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
03-05-2007, 02:39 PM
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Replies: 114
Views: 1,681
Re: Cat Microwave Question More Explicitly Stated
If I knew that stopping his deed would make anyone's hand be cut off, I wouldn't want his deed stoped. I'd let a 1000 cats be tortured and killed to save the hand of anyone. I think the reason for...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
02-28-2007, 01:02 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 647
Re: Another Animal Axiom Question
What if you have a heart problem, and that same hand you're blowing belongs to the only surgeon in the world who knows how to fix your hand problem? Would you
a) blow the hand off and not have your...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
02-28-2007, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 647
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
02-28-2007, 12:45 PM
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Replies: 130
Views: 1,779
Re: Yet Another \"Axiom\" Question
I would trade an optimal situation for the end of human race. The time is not an issue to me. I can become sterile right now for all I can as long as that doesn't have any effect on my newly improved...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
02-28-2007, 12:57 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 590
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
02-26-2007, 01:29 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 647
Re: Another Animal Axiom Question
Looking at it from the standpoint of society, if the hand I'm blowing is from a surgeon who saves lifes I wouldn't blow his hand off. If the man was a street bum who didn't contribute anything to...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
02-26-2007, 01:19 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 590
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
02-26-2007, 01:16 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 590
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
02-26-2007, 12:44 PM
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Replies: 192
Views: 2,105
Re: Black People
I think the reason for the acceptance is that the new generation is more educated in terms of race. There has been more propaganda against racism now than there was about 30 or 40 years ago. And...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
02-16-2007, 02:29 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 45
Re: Enjoying Poker More
I'm starting to play poker more and more myself. And even though I'm overall winning at the time, I get really frustrated when I sit down to play and I loose pot after pot. I think it is because at...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
02-16-2007, 02:12 PM
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Replies: 217
Views: 2,187
Re: Capital Punishment For Murderers
Well, first of all I think man (and his/her actions) is a product of things that can be summerized in 1. His/her biology 2. His/her sorroundings 3. (For religious people out there) His/her soul....
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