Danceswithwordshypotheticals.
November 17th 2006 01:55
hello there all, this is my first blog for orble...and as such, i thought i would do as i normally do when i am getting to know people: ask cumbersome and somewhat irrelevant hypotheticals. i ask these questions because i think the natures of people reveal themselves when possibility is made boundless, when choices have the most gravity. i hope you guys enjoy them, or at least, they assist in passing the time.
1) if you were an omnipotent (all powerful) deity fashioning the human race from clay, imbuing traits, characteristics, pre-dispositions etc. what would be the very first thing you would impart to them? what do you think is the most important capability for humanity to possess?
2) if a group of children were born, raised and moulded far away from the conventions of human society, were taught only basic english that didnt define the intangible and the moral(eg- no words for god, good, evil, right, wrong etc)...and gave them a island a la lord of the flies, do you think they would create words for these things on their own?
3) if you were a german scientist working in the late 1930's on a revolutionary new medical paradigm that could potentially cure cancer, would you accept both funding and experimental subjects from hitler ie: members from the local jewish populace, (you arent allowed to use other animals or aryan cancer patients) to achieve your goals?
4) and lastly, if the apocalypse/ ragnorak/ choose your end of the world myth came crashing down upon us, and you were unanimously elected to speak to a divine representative to justify humanities continued existence, what would you argue? why do we deserve to carry on as a species?
1) if you were an omnipotent (all powerful) deity fashioning the human race from clay, imbuing traits, characteristics, pre-dispositions etc. what would be the very first thing you would impart to them? what do you think is the most important capability for humanity to possess?
2) if a group of children were born, raised and moulded far away from the conventions of human society, were taught only basic english that didnt define the intangible and the moral(eg- no words for god, good, evil, right, wrong etc)...and gave them a island a la lord of the flies, do you think they would create words for these things on their own?
3) if you were a german scientist working in the late 1930's on a revolutionary new medical paradigm that could potentially cure cancer, would you accept both funding and experimental subjects from hitler ie: members from the local jewish populace, (you arent allowed to use other animals or aryan cancer patients) to achieve your goals?
4) and lastly, if the apocalypse/ ragnorak/ choose your end of the world myth came crashing down upon us, and you were unanimously elected to speak to a divine representative to justify humanities continued existence, what would you argue? why do we deserve to carry on as a species?
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