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Pensatore: "Usually revolutions turn out to be quite bloody. Many people will die in the chaos. From a scientist, I would expect a more ethical suggestion." | Pensatore: "Usually revolutions turn out to be quite bloody. Many people will die in the chaos. From a scientist, I would expect a more ethical suggestion." | ||
: "Ethics for its own sake is not an option. Look at history. On the verge of death, men [[wp:Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571# | : "Ethics for its own sake is not an option. Look at history. On the verge of death, men [[wp:Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571#Anthropophagy|ate other men]]<!--[[wp:Human_cannibalism#World_War_II]]-->, even corpses, for one simple reason: to survive. And even devout Christians have come to the conclusion that death to a megalomaniac dictator can be justified. -- Ethics are only as good as the situation allows them to be! Of how much worth are rules and laws which don't let you survive?" | ||
"And you believe we are in such a situation? Certainly, the WCG isn't the optimal solution, but this is a bit too much in my opinion. -- What do you have in mind? Do you want as a geneticist to make a biological intervention that takes away all of the control humans have wrested from mother nature in the last [[wp:Control_of_fire_by_early_humans|125,000 years]]?" | "And you believe we are in such a situation? Certainly, the WCG isn't the optimal solution, but this is a bit too much in my opinion. -- What do you have in mind? Do you want as a geneticist to make a biological intervention that takes away all of the control humans have wrested from mother nature in the last [[wp:Control_of_fire_by_early_humans|125,000 years]]?" | ||