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>From: zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum)
Subject: Re: re re ai failures
Message-ID: <1992May10.033949.7271@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
References: <1992May1.193141.24350@psych.toronto.edu> <zlsiida.144@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <1992May6.163335.8117@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
Date: Sun, 10 May 1992 03:39:49 GMT
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In article <1992May6.163335.8117@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson) writes:
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>Mr. Collins writes:
>>        Regardless of moral or ethical codes or laws I think
>>you'll find history shows that killing happens whenever it's expedient.
>
>Wow, what a statement, remind me to stay away from you. I guess though
>you must be prone to inaction while waiting for everyone to agree.  Of

>five tattwas (ether is the stuff of thoughts) and killing a human
>creates a very heavy karmic death (meaning being killed in a future
>life).  Now if this sounds a little far fetched to you look at our laws.
>What would be the penalty for picking your neighbors flower, stomping
>on your neighbors tarantula, killing your neighbors dog, killing you
>neighbor's three year old daughter.  Now what should be the penalty
>for unplugging his computer?
Killing a computer is not the same thing as unplugging it!
Killing the three year old wouldn't be so bad if you could
just plug it back in, and have it resume at the state you
first met it in! (I suspect that humans will one day have
a amusement park, where people will kill each other, and
then be revived to the point where they would not know
they had been killed - it's inevitable!)


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