Category: Life and Death
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Why we need more bullfights!
Our sterilized misguided society cannot stand what is real. Animal activists cry against bullfights. They torture the animals, they claim. But has anyone seen the terrible conditions under which the animals we eat everyday are kept and then slaughtered? Isn’t that “torture”? Todays people really believe that their food grows into the form of chicken…
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Future affecting the past (!) & Hemingway - Too illogical to be false...
Chinese people think that the future can affect the past. They say that once upon a time a very mighty and powerful man in China did not manage to become an emperor only because he was punished for his followers conducting human sacrifices AFTER his death (!!) ... For us westerners this seems absurd. But…
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Why do good people suffer?
This is one of the greatest problems that troubles philosophers around the world: Why do good people suffer? I think the problem can be solved if we understand that it is not really a problem. Who are we to know that suffering is "bad"? Who are we to know that being "happy" in this short…
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From an apple that is not an apple to death that is not death...
Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. (OSF) has created a genetically modified apple that does not brown after being cut [1]. Is an apple that does not turn brown after being cut an apple? What are the characterisitcs an apple has? How many characteristics of an apple can we change before we stop talking about "apples"? Are…
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Suicide, Computers, Free will, Flame...
The creators of the super-evolved computer virus Flame starting sending a command script to some of the computers infected by it [1], that makes the virus commit "suicide" and destroy itself. If being human is defined by having free will and if commiting suicide is the ultimate expression of that free will, then commiting suicide…
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