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May 12th, 2002, 01:30 AM
#1
faced with a moral choice
Would you take power and notoriety or rather choose power and respectability. Someone put this to me recently.
Are you more inclined to be bad or good? Assuming the reward, initially, is the same.
What is more important to you?
Trappedagainbyperfectlogic.
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May 12th, 2002, 02:14 AM
#2
I'm more inclined to be good. Doing bad deeds makes me feel guilty.
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May 12th, 2002, 02:21 AM
#3
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May 12th, 2002, 03:50 AM
#4
LOL. Don't worry, it's closed now. But they might send you to Marion...
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May 12th, 2002, 04:25 AM
#5
I would shoot for respectability. I want to be remembered for doing something great...whatever that may be...
I'm a good girl...really, I am... *LOL*
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May 12th, 2002, 12:39 PM
#6
I'm a good girl...really, I am...
ah huh we believe you :P
hehe messin'
hmmmmm I would prolly go for good - tho sometimes being a lil bad is fun
v_Ln
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May 13th, 2002, 02:57 PM
#7
I'd choose to be good even if the rewards weren't the same. It's a matter of principle. The question does bring up a very interesting discussion though. Everyone seems to choose beeing good but what are the reasons for it?
Are they social, religious or just imposed on us by society? Are there really any reasons for beeing good, besides the fact that we all want to feel accepted by our surroundings?
Mankan
\"The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.\"
- Edsger Dijkstra
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May 13th, 2002, 07:33 PM
#8
I would choose power with respectability, because you would be more likely to keep your power with respectability rather than notoriety (unless you are a Kennedy).
Deb
Also, if you were just going for being good, whose good do you choose? People have very different ideas of what is good and why.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
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May 14th, 2002, 09:38 AM
#9
Also, if you were just going for being good, whose good do you choose? People have very different ideas of what is good and why.
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I would define 'good' as any action that brings optimal personal satisfaction and/or happiness to the people I interact with in any give situation.
/me wonders if one could use the Nash Equilibrium to define 'good'
Food for though: Do you pat the dog because the dog likes to be patted or because you like to pat it?
Mankan
\"The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.\"
- Edsger Dijkstra
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May 14th, 2002, 02:32 PM
#10
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