Moral Absolutes Ping.
IIRC, this is the second article about this gruesome practice.
Too tired to make comments, the others already there are enough.
But, since I must make comments or my eyes start bulging, here's one, similar to what I said on the other thread:
This world is not a carnival, it's an educational institution. And we all have to take the final exam. Messing around with natural law, bending and twisting and splicing and dicing just to try to make this mortal world into a utopia where everyone gets to have just what they want is not only a waste of time, it'll never be perfect. It's designed that way.
It's not the hand you're dealt, it's what you make of the hand you're dealt.
And dying rich is not the goal, nor is dying with the perfect kids, the Ph.D, framed clippings yellowing with age about one's acheivements, the acclaim of one's fellows, or blue ribbons. Especially if any of these acheivements were made at the cost of causing suffering to others.
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Good night, all!
Your logic leads to the conclusion that we should never try to improve anything, make anyone's life better, or strive for anything. I really don't think you believe that.