Recent content by Paladin Solo

Congrats, Carib.

Actually, Shark-Killing-Killer-Whale pods will be the end of the terrible beasties. But we can't let that happen. Can't be a shark-killing gap.

Played Amnesia for a bit today. It's really creepy. I've got a livestream going if anyone wants to watch.

I'm sure plenty of people are glad the U.N. has time to debate things. Not that I care, but pretending you do makes you seem a bit incompetent when you fail to act quickly, or at all. I knew you weren't reading anything at the start, don't kick yourself for it. But now I'm curious...

Damn it! I had an entire post written out and it got deleted by accident! Curse you, Tom Cruise! [spoiler:6c78dca349] Actually, I can. But I'll come to why, in a minute. So you're saying vigilantly eradicating human life can't result in genocide? GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE! We got to...

On a personal level, I can define the value of someone's life to myself. I think everyone can, actually. They just might not choose to.

No, no. Please, keep calling me a divine Nazi. So they're more valuable based on numbers? Well then, let's get us 'ere some posse so we can hang us dem der niggras like the good ol' days! Eh boys?! No, you're right. Blindly assuming 100 deserve to live more than 1 is so much more...

What if it was 100 million soldiers dying to defend 1 million civilians, or 1 million soldiers killing off 100 million civilians? Hey, if all you care about is numbers, then that's your problem. I, being human and therefore capable of abstract thought tend to look a bit deeper into the...

It's funny that it's flawed thinking when you don't agree. So because it's 100:1 ratio, you'd be against the killing, because it's genocide to you? Well, now you're just placing a value on human life based on your perceptions. So by your analogy, it's okay to let 1 million perish because to...

To many, it's enough. Just because you don't see it that way, doesn't make it illogical. If I find more worth in the one million over the hundred million, it wold make plenty of sense to me to kill the hundred to save the one.

Yes. I learned Hollywood is ignorant of natural history and gives the human race FAR too much credit.

Even if they could, it would be suicide, and would just escalate into a global, nuclear conflict.

"China invades Taiwan. U.S does not intervene. Taiwan and China reunite syombolicaly ending the 1949 civil war. The U.S has to all intents and purposes ceded regional hegemony to China. China amasses a fleet of equal capabilities as to the U.S. A pacific war begins and the U.S is defeated...

I'm sure Iraq is a work of fiction for those people, but things aren't as simple as a lone Chinese missile sub encroaching on the US coastline and the US giving up fearfully and unconditionally. Maybe I'm wrong, but historically speaking, it's not likely. And maybe I'd be comically skewing...

That didn't stop the British from bending them over a barrel.