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Elodin | Master Namer (elodin) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2013-06-10 19:46:00

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Interesting fact!

Tell me something I don't know.

Go.

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	aedwardstark 2013-06-11 02:57 am UTC (link)
	Every adult human's middle finger is 3 inches long (Reply to this) (Thread)

	elodin 2013-06-11 03:01 am UTC (link)
	How do you know? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	aedwardstark 2013-06-11 03:06 am UTC (link)
	Science and a lot of checking. Though after a while people stopped being willing to let me measure their middle fingers. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elodin 2013-06-11 03:06 am UTC (link)
	Hm, how do you account for dwarfs? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	aedwardstark 2013-06-11 03:08 am UTC (link)
	At the risk of being verbally assaulted for rudeness, they are a genetic anomaly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elodin 2013-06-11 03:11 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, okay. I'll take that. Therefore statistically speaking they're not included. Though probably also socially. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	queenofrohan 2013-06-11 02:59 am UTC (link)
	Sindarin. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	elodin 2013-06-11 02:59 am UTC (link)
	What? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	queenofrohan 2013-06-11 03:25 am UTC (link)
	My language. Sindarin. You don't speak it. There's an interesting fact. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elodin 2013-06-11 03:36 am UTC (link)
	Good answer, but boring. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	queenofrohan 2013-06-11 03:39 am UTC (link)
	Is the truth always boring? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elodin 2013-06-11 03:40 am UTC (link)
	Yes. Disappointing, likely. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	theonewoman 2013-06-11 05:27 am UTC (link)
	One is morally obligated not to do anything impossible. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	elodin 2013-06-11 05:29 am UTC (link)
	False, and not a fact. That's more subjective. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

theonewoman
2013-06-11 05:32 am UTC (link)

Not if you ask Jaako Hintikka.

His argument, which rests entirely on the principle that a false proposition implies any proposition, is this:

Suppose Act A is such that it's impossible to perform without destroying the human race. Then surely one is morally obligated not to perform this act.

Well, if Act A is an impossible act, then it is indeed impossible to perform it without destroying the human race (since it's impossible to perform it at all), and therefore one is morally obligated not to perform the act.

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	elodin 2013-06-11 05:36 am UTC (link)
	Subjective. One's argument isn't fact, but an opinion that presupposes conditions about whatever nature one is studying. If it's not possible to perform then you have no reason to fear it, and are therefore not morally obligated to avoid it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	theonewoman 2013-06-11 05:38 am UTC (link)
	But what if moral obligation is what renders it impossible? Theoretically, we can destroy the entire human race, but it's not possible because we wouldn't do it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elodin 2013-06-11 05:40 am UTC (link)
	Still not morals. And still not fact. Morality isn't the only thing going into reasons why we don't do things. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	theonewoman 2013-06-11 05:42 am UTC (link)
	I'll give you that. Morality have never really stopped nor motivated me. Here: There is something the dead eat but if the living eat it, they die. What is it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elodin 2013-06-11 05:46 am UTC (link)
	Nothing. Dead men don't eat. At least not in the realm of the living. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	theonewoman 2013-06-11 05:49 am UTC (link)
	Very good. A sphere has two sides. However, there are one-sided surfaces. What are they? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elodin 2013-06-11 05:53 am UTC (link)
	Hm, I don't know. Infinity? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	theonewoman 2013-06-11 05:55 am UTC (link)
	You're very close. It's called a Mobius Strip. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elodin 2013-06-11 06:00 am UTC (link)
	Congratulations, I learned something today. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	theonewoman 2013-06-11 12:02 pm UTC (link)
	You're welcome. (Reply to this) (Parent)