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Empathy and Logic are mutually exclusive
Does that mean liberal logic is an oxymoron? :lol: :lol:
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Vrede wrote:Does that mean that 'doctor empathy' is an oxymoron? :lol: :lol:
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Vrede wrote:anamorphosis (2 minute video)

Watch to the end, mike.
That shoe is real. I swear. Crazy stuff!

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Vrede wrote:anamorphosis (2 minute video)

Watch to the end, mike.
:ugeek: Nice, Vrede. Thanks for the suggestion of watching the 'till the end. 8-)

I've seen much related to such (even multiple rooms painted, or taped, so, at just the right viewing angle, it appears far different than reality).

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http://www.moillusions.com/2006/03/3d-p ... usion.html


I'll be around more ... just a lot to catch up on ... :)
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Vrede wrote:Invite guests over, booze them up, don't warn them. :evil:

I bet the unveiling included booze and a surprise or two
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I had read about those particular moral dilemmas before, but I don't think I'd heard about it in the context of psychopathy.

Interesting. (Turns out I'm not.)

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Vrede wrote:Are You a Psychopath? Take the Test.


what test?
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billy.pilgrim wrote:
Vrede wrote:Are You a Psychopath? Take the Test.


what test?
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Vrede wrote:
billy.pilgrim wrote:
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billy.pilgrim wrote:what test?
How did you answer the two questions?
what test?
:lol: I'm not sure what mental disease that is. ;)
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It's a shame more people didn't watch and answer, I was really curious.

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Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”

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Vrede wrote:
bannination wrote:It's a shame more people didn't watch and answer, I was really curious.
I answered "No" to both questions. How can we know for sure that something else won't intervene to save the 5, or that the 1 isn't somehow more valuable to humanity than the 5, or that the 1 wouldn't live to somehow save far more than 5? Plus, I'm loathe to take deliberate action to kill someone. Now, if it was 500 or 5000 rather than 5 it gets trickier for me.

So, answering "No" to the second question means I'm not a psychopath but, according to the psychologist, answering "No" to the first question means I'm abnormal. He doesn't say if there's a name for in what way.

I thought of it as a perfect world scenario and that there was no ifs only the choice itself. You're right though, it gets much more hairy when considering a real world scenario.

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You talkin' to me?........You talkin' to ME???

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I answered "no" to the first question, and "yes" to the second. 8-)

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That's a pretty cool one, Doc, I just caught that the other day ... I fell in love with Suni Williams ... Image

I went ahead and watched the follow ups regarding the undocking and landing of the Soyuz capsule ... neat stuff ...
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mike wrote:
That's a pretty cool one, Doc, I just caught that the other day ... I fell in love with Suni Williams ... Image

I went ahead and watched the follow ups regarding the undocking and landing of the Soyuz capsule ... neat stuff ...

amazing what we people have done
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