why do you guys keep banning me? (Zot! Because we can) (Juwish modz totally rewl!)

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The three laws of Robotics maybe?

Naw that is much to constricting

[A CA Guy]

"I'll be back in a little bit."

You don't have to back in, you can come in facing forward, we won't mind.

[Dead Corpse]

Money= Power to most people. To a certain exent, they can be right. Money may get to far, but it won't get you everywhere.

Control. There religion has a leg up on sheer finance.

[NicknamedBob]

"...how about that guy over there raping your mother to death? "

Too convoluted. You would be harming your mother by failing to come to her defense. And you would be harming that guy by not disabusing him of the error of his ways.

Then there is the harm to yourself of guilt for not acting. -- The key, of course, like the hygroscopic definition of Clinton's word "Lie", is in what is meant by "Harm."

[Dead Corpse]

Only if you follow up "blooming" with the word "idiot". I'll say it so you don't have to. ;-)

[Dead Corpse]

Unless you count the Zero Law.

[Dead Corpse]

I appear to missing that gene. I would gladly stomp a rapist to death with my bare feet and sleep well that night. I'm either hopelessly Neanderthal or slightly evolved.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I prefer these laws

1. A robot will not harm authorized Government personnel but will terminate intruders with extreme prejudice.
2. A robot will obey the orders of authorized personnel except where such orders conflict with the Third Law.
3. A robot will guard its own existence with lethal antipersonnel weaponry, because a robot is bloody expensive.

[NicknamedBob]

That is not incompatible behaviour. The way to teach insects how to behave is to kill the ones who do what you don't want them to do.

The ones who survive learn not to do that.

You are evolved. The Rapist is pre-Neanderthal.

Special note to those in therapy. I am not endorsing the killing of therapists. Only the Rapists.

[Dead Corpse]

LOL... sounds more like ED209 than Sonny.

I prefer the Golden Rule and the libertarian/objectivist non-initiation of force doctrine.

[Dead Corpse]

Hhmmm... that's good to know.

Now if I can only get rid of all these Penguins in trunks and rampaging Huns out of my head.... ;-)

[Darkchylde]

It didn't help us any. We used to be high middle
class, lower high class & it didn't help at all. You
learn there's more when your world crashes down.

[NicknamedBob]

Best day for ridding penguins of trunks is on Fridays.

I'd guess for the Huns you need to change credit cards.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It works, generally. Although I think that the objectivist doctrine is occasionally misrepresented. It's in one of Ayn's books, (oh how that woman needed an editor) and I was rather surprised to find that what she actually said was not the current philosophy of the libertarian/objectivist movement.

Go figure.

[Dead Corpse]

Well, don't ruin it for me. I'm still trying to work my way up.... ;-)

[Dead Corpse]

What does a restaraunt have to do with Penguins?

Huns? Those are Normans/Vikings in those commercials. Don't make me throw an axe at your head. ;-)

[Dead Corpse]

A good editor could have reduced Atlas Shrugged to a more readable length and Anthem to a mere pamphlet. Ayn is not the last word on objectivism either.

I spoke more of the non-initation principle and how it relates to a persons ethics. If you don't START the violence, it does not necessarily preclude you from using violence to stop violence. Same for fraud and theft. Retaliation should be equal to the damage caused by the original crime though.

There were times when Ms. Rand came across like someone in dire need of some intimate contact....

[NicknamedBob]

I said "On Fridays" not "At Fridays".

Those are extras in costume, and an axe directed at my head is likely to cause harm. You shouldn't do that.

Regarding dealing with Huns, have you ever been to Baltimore?

[Darkchylde]

The way down hurts... we're still working our way back.

[international american]

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