Tom Hicks
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Please excuse my interrupting the moral arguement for a digression.In the ancient Indian philosophy they have a concept (pardon the phonetic Sanscrit) "achintya bedha bedha tutva" which translates as "inconceiveably simultaniously one and different".The example is given with this of a flame of a candle lighting another candle.Then you compare the qualities of the two flames.Are they the same?Well sorta...Each can do exactly what the other can do.There is no practical difference between the original flame and the copy.The original flame can also light millions of exact copies of itself without diminishing its inherant qualities of heat and light.So can any other flame derived from the originalAre they different?well kinda,despite that they are both flame...one IS the original and ALL the others the copies.
It is funny that this old religeous parable might be appropriate to this arguement.As I said,I am not addressing morality at all.Just looking at the "tangeble" issue from what seems to be a very sophisticated approach from a long gone pre-technical culture.Let the argueing continue now...
Tom
It is funny that this old religeous parable might be appropriate to this arguement.As I said,I am not addressing morality at all.Just looking at the "tangeble" issue from what seems to be a very sophisticated approach from a long gone pre-technical culture.Let the argueing continue now...
Tom