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To: Stultis

Heh. Makes as much sense.

Most of these theories are morally neutral. It's only in their scientific application, despite what the author intends, that these ideas gain a "status" of good or evil.

Using Einstein to make nukes specifically for the purpose of annihilating an entire people would be evil, whilst using it to provide cheap, safe energy to the world would be good.


481 posted on 08/28/2006 9:04:36 PM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: Killborn

I agree with what you have said in your post #481....someone invents something, or someone forms a theory, and someone else will take that and use it for their own purpose, whether good or evil....it is quite frankly, very lazy thinking to then blame the inventor, or his invention, or blame the one who formed the theory or blame his theory for what someone else did with that invention or theory...it just makes no sense...

By that type of thinking, lets blame Henry Ford for all the deaths resulting from car accidents...and get rid of all the cars...

Lets blame the Wright Brothers for all the deaths resulting from plane crashes...and get rid of all the planes...

You get the point...one could go on and on with endless examples, examples which of course, make absolutely no sense...

Havent we heard it said, time and time again here, that guns dont kill people, people kill people...why not blame the inventor of guns, and get rid of all the guns...its the very same reasoning, that people are using to blame Darwin for Hitler...Does anyone actually really believe, if Darwin had not formed his theory of evolution, that Hitler would not have acted in the way that he did?...That Hitler would not have done what he did?....Give me a break...Evil people will do as they wish, and they will so using any and all justifications that they deem necessary to sway people to their way of thinking...



485 posted on 08/28/2006 9:42:55 PM PDT by andysandmikesmom
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