What's So Great About Ushas?

Paul B · 16 Jul 2008, 22:31 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: pb.stuff at gmail.com (Paul B)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:31:17 -0400
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

> !!
>

Come on, don't just "!!" me, explain -  I'm genuinely curious.

You are assuming that they are all random. What if you could cause them?
>
> Or meteor strikes, directing large rocks at planets inhabited by one's
> enemies is well within human capability, which the other is not just yet.
>

 Sure, why not.  (Though I could've sworn you were referring to an act of
nature - an intentionally caused supernova a year would be a bit much)  But
if it's wilfully caused and results in death, you've got an ethical problem,
and then it is something to get worked up about.

>
> I also differentiate between murder and homicide: all murder is homicide,
> not all homicide is murder.
>

Sure, that's why I (jokingly) mentioned manslaughter (less severe than
murder).  The severity may vary, but purposefully causing death of unwilling
souls is uniformly a bad thing.

Throughout this discussion I've tried to establish that it's still a bad
thing, even if done by time-traveling aliens from another dimension, and
even if it's done for a good cause.

I've been surprised by the resistance to this idea.
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