Dicecaster

Alright, so is it okay to destroy, damage, or detract from something if you are not doing it out of malice or hatred? For one example, suppose a lion is charging at you with the full intent to kill you; you would have left it alone, but it's not evil to kill it to save your own skin, no malice intended, correct? However, as another example, suppose you are a hit man, you illegally kill people for money; to you it's just a job, no hatred whatsoever, but you're still killing innocent people.

@Kuraikiba Any negative effect? 1. What design? 2. If I step on somebody's toe while I'm moving through a subway train, that is negative, but is it evil (even to a small extent)? @BlackRampage 1. Dude, he's not "condemning" anybody. He gave no indication that he wasn't going to accept anybody else's opinion. If you're going to debate, don't distort what we're saying. 2. Line 6: "Obviously the concept of evil is just a human invention. Ever seen anything in nature that could be defined as 'evil'?" I don't understand your argument. Unless I'm mistaken, you are saying that evil is a human invention because we haven't seen anything in nature that could be classified as evil. This seems to be a very strong case of circular reasoning. I believe that there are moral laws of nature in place, just like the laws of physics. Simply put, if these laws are obeyed, life gets better, otherwise, life gets worse. I believe this works on a personal and corporate level. I also believe that any society (past or present) or non-fictional story can easily justify this claim.

I think that the existence of Love is de facto and debating that point is moot. There is however a confusion on this thread between attraction / lust and love. The former pair might be put down to audio visual and pheromone input but the actual emotion of love is far more complex and subjective and not the least bit scientifically analyzable. One might meet a set of identical twins and be attracted to both on a physiological level but it is doubtful that one one fall in love with both, that is the province of emotional and intellectual attraction and development which is entirely subjective to the individual. If love , real love could be reduced to a set of scientific principles or pharmacological responses then do you not think that the mega corps would be hard at development drugs? Love is something that is unique to sentient beings and in my opinion not confined to our species alone. There is the story of the Border Collie whose master / friend died and though ( the dog) was adopted after, she spent every day at the grave site of her deceased master ( rain or shine) for over ten years and would then return to her new home at the end of the day. They erected a statue to the dog in the Scottish town of her residence. Most believe that people have souls (I certainly do). Let us assume that this is fact. If this is the case, then it's definitely arguable that the body is a means by which the soul interacts with the physical world. Supposing this is truth, love could be an emotion that the person (the soul) feels, and the body could interpret it with a set of chemical reactions*. This is just an example (I have no idea if this is fact or not), but I would hope that this illustrates my point: it is possible for love (not lust, love) to be a deep emotion as well as a scientifically analyzable phenomenon. I disagree with marharth in that I believe it to be more than simply a biological process, but I disagree with other posters in that it's entirely possible for it to be a biological process as well.

Right, so I'm trying to network two computers (running different versions of Windows Vista) through a Netgear router (no specific information) so as to set up a LAN for Battlefield 2. I've set the hard drives on both so they're shared (if that does anything), and each computer can "sense" the other on the network, but I always get this error message from both computers whenever I attempt to view the other's files: "\\[COMPUTERNAME] is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Logon failure: user account restriction. Possible reasons are blank passwords not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a policy restriction has been enforced." So, in short, how to I get past this problem, and are there any steps I would have to accomplish afterward to achieve my goal?

Granted, but they're on your feet. I wish I knew everything about networking computers.

Love is an intangible proving it is like proving faith, what coherent argument would suit your Grace? What do you mean "proving it"? Proving its existence?

Supposing there is extraterrestrial life, I don't see why there would consider us insignificant. Suppose we finally got the technology to explore the great beyond, and we found another planet with nothing more than living cells. That's it, cells. Yes, it's technologically primitive compared to ourselves, but that would be an extremely fascinating occurrence if we've never seen life on a planet other than our own. Why would they ignore us?

Okay, I read through part of page 3, and I had to skip to the end so I could say something; if it has already been said, however, forgive me. Now, marharth has made it painfully clear that love is a biological phenomenon that can be explained by science. This does NOT mean that it can't be a deep thing. None of the posts I have read (again, read above) other than marharth's give a shred of evidence supporting anything he/she is saying, it's just giving opinions. If this is to be a debate (as opposed to an argument) there must be reasoning behind the debaters' ideas, or else it's just pointless talk.

Certainly, out to 5 inches. I wish that Elder Scrolls VI will cover the entire world, instead of just one region.

Granted. This particular bottle, however, gives you +400 rads to compensate for the great health boost. I wish I had special permissions that would not require me to wish, only to corrupt other people's wishes. And pie.

Granted, but no one else has enough hard drive space for them. I wish this game would become a little less stale.

Granted, but they're dead. I wish I had my own laptop (wireless connection included). Yes, it must be fully functional. P.S. They finally made a Forum Games section. Nice.

Granted. You accomplished this amazing feat by convincing the board to, internationally, switch the meanings of the numerals 3 and 4. I wish I could draw really well without the effort of actually learning how.

Fine, but that's only because you're using an extremely obscure keyboard layout, so hitting Enter is actually hitting J. I wish I had canned air so I could dust out this noisy computer tower.

Granted, but once the burgers reach maximum velocity, they start killing people like really bad hail (but they do taste really good to the survivors). I wish I had a more creative wish than "I wish Skyrim would be out".

Granted, but it turns out, contrary to popular belief, it SUCKS. I wish I knew who gave me that kudos point (someone still holds the faith!).

Granted, but you got the poor tiger in the bargain bin, and while he is domesticated, they've starved him, and he eats you. I wish I had a time machine that brought me to November 2059.

Granted, but if you use this new-found ability, your eyes fall out. I wish I could find the flash game called Pain.

Try to get your hands on the book Whatever Happened to Justice, by Richard J. Maybury. Once you're finished with it, this behaviour will seem to be nothing at all out of the ordinary.

I'm sorry, but I am genuinely confused; what do you mean by this statement?

Granted, but they're all just variations on the lame :smile: smiley. I wish I were better at being Spy in Team Fortress 2.

Granted. Being selective of what part of the poster I wish to grant, you wished for death by meteorite. Fail. I wish the fourth season of Eureka would come out on instant viewing already.

Granted. Ice cream sundae monster trucks juggling chainsaws of doom, coming right up. I wish I could spend all my time playing video games (aside from when I'm eating). @Thor. Yeah, it isn't very scary after you've been playing awhile, but you do have to remain jumpy in order to, y'know, live.

Granted, but it turns out that they're FAKE! I wish I had the latest Doom game (just started playing Doom 3, and surprisingly had no nightmares the following night).

Granted. Welcome to Buckeye, Arizona! I wish myself to be King of Venezuela.