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Post by Mammothistan on Mar 11, 2004 3:18:18 GMT -5
"Soylent Green is people" just isn't the same.
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Post by Tar A on Mar 11, 2004 20:13:06 GMT -5
All right, well it looks like option 3 wins out so I'll go ahead and choose it now.
And for all the Option 1 advocates, the effect of that issue is something like "murder rates rise as the popularity of soylent products grows" - NOT a pleasant business.
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Post by mussolandia on Mar 12, 2004 11:34:21 GMT -5
At last someone has picked up on the Fat Bastard joke. Thank you Sir Paul for making my afternoons dwelling on cinema reminiscence worthy.
Back to the subject in question, perhaps I should define "human dignity" in the way I have been instructed by my philosophy teachers to do. It includes the basic rights which humanity as a whole thinks no human being should be deprived of. If you read the UN Declaration of Human Rights, it's pretty much based on human dignity.
I know the concept of human dignity is quite frail and ambiguous and that it is violated in some aspect or another in every part of the world. However, I think that respect for life is essential above all. Humanity believes you should protect your own life and that institutions must be created for everybody else to protect your life. This is why cannibalism must be rejected.
Though Lady Rebels poses an interesting and unanswerable question (at least by me), the issue does not consider these extremes. It is merely considering voluntary decisions where the choice of you not digging into somebody else's flesh does not hamper your pwn survival.
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