A thread for "Quick Questions"?

[LaZy]

Yes thats it right there. We start a donations section 2 "hire" the paparazzi. Or better yet, if the donations are sufficient, we could even "hire" Drews neighbour.

out

[Kaiser_von_Nuben]

OK, I have a couple quick questions:

1. Is it better to be feared or loved?

2. Why do ashigarus wear those rice-picker hats?

3. Are human beings naturally good or naturally bad?

4. Trial for murder. Prosecution witness testifies that the Defendant told her he wanted to kill his wife two years before the murder. On cross-examination, Defendant asks whether the witness had an affair with him that ended bitterly a year before the murder. Prosecution objects. How do you rule?

Please support your answers with detailed analysis, especially your answer to Question #2.

[Sporting_Lisbon]

2. Why do ashigarus wear those rice-picker hats?

They're that fast because of the hats, when it rains they don't have to get the water away from their eyes and they can still aim! Xbows have no hats and then they can't kill them with those silly arrows.

[TheRam]

1. Is it better to be feared or loved?
Loved, unless you're sadistic.

2. Why do ashigarus wear those rice-picker hats?
They are not rice picker hats, they were known as "jingasa" and had a more general purpose, made of hard leather to protect from the elements..

3. Are human beings naturally good or naturally bad?
That question infers there is a "good" and a "bad". It is true when looking at other animals that they do not seem to feel guilt for killing in the same way, so you could say we have "evolved" goodness, if that is what empathy and morals are.

4. Trial for murder. Prosecution witness testifies that the Defendant told her he wanted to kill his wife two years before the murder. On cross-examination, Defendant asks whether the witness had an affair with him that ended bitterly a year before the murder. Prosecution objects. How do you rule?
Not guilty?

[Tubruk]

1. Is it better to be feared or loved?
depends on what your trying to accomplish

3. Are human beings naturally good or naturally bad?
imo humans are naturally made to survive, i would Kill for mine or my families lives/wellbeing, as i'm sure many people would. imho i think that "good and bad" are made up, who says whats good or bad? im sorry if this offends anyone but this is my view, i believe that christianity and the religions associated with it used the good/bad system used the 10 commandments and such to control how people acted.

4. Trial for murder. Prosecution witness testifies that the Defendant told her he wanted to kill his wife two years before the murder. On cross-examination, Defendant asks whether the witness had an affair with him that ended bitterly a year before the murder. Prosecution objects. How do you rule?

ty, i know i rule

i have another question which is relative to question three.

someone has a life threatening illness and cannot survive without the cure.
-is it wrong or right to steal the medicine?
or
-is it wrong or right to let a fellow human being die?

[Tubruk]

and the biggest mystery, why do men have nipples? 8O

[LoN_Colossus]

Isn't gender determined after nipples are made, so thats why?

[Tubruk]

[quote=""LoN_Colossus""]Isn't gender determined after nipples are made, so thats why?[/quote]

i dont know tbh could be a possibility, or they may be there to point to warmth when its cold

[djdan]

[quote=""Tubruk""][quote=""LoN_Colossus""]Isn't gender determined after nipples are made, so thats why?[/quote]

i dont know tbh could be a possibility, or they may be there to point to warmth when its cold [/quote]

LoN is right, each embryo starts off as a girl, the nipples are formed only then are the male chromosomes formedhence how some men can get actual breasts formed later in in life.

[GeneralMichael]

[quote=""djdan""][quote=""Tubruk""][quote=""LoN_Colossus""]Isn't gender determined after nipples are made, so thats why?[/quote]

i dont know tbh could be a possibility, or they may be there to point to warmth when its cold [/quote]

LoN is right, each embryo starts off as a girl, the nipples are formed only then are the male chromosomes formedhence how some men can get actual breasts formed later in in life.[/quote]

Ohh I think there was a case where a man actually had an ovary. Also do you consider the supposedly pregnant guy a real man? For me I don't really consider him a man since he still has a bunch of female parts. Right now I consider him to be an it

[Kaiser_von_Nuben]

[-is it wrong or right to let a fellow human being die?[/quote]

I hate to say this, but "it depends." If a person is in intolerable pain and there is absolutely no medical hope of recovery, I would say that it is both compassionate and appropriate to let a person die. On the other hand, people let one another die all the time for really terrible reasons, including financial ones. Here in the Land of the Free, for instance, insurance companies commonly refuse to cover certain medications and operations, leaving sick people to die because they didn't pay for the policy that covered the treatment. In my opinion, letting people die because they can't afford something is cruel and unforgiveable. I'm sure defenders of American medicine would say that such things never happen, but I know that they do.

[IndyBrit]

A "defender of the American medicine" might say "of course it happens but the free market system still produces the greatest total good" (although said defender may also say that the "American system" is not really free market but is instead a broken government/private Frankensteinien monstrosity, and that even the evil "national health care" would probably be better than what we have now).

Said defender may also challenge a different kind of defender of a different health care system by asking, is it OK to:
a) tell someone they can have the treatment, but kill them by putting them on a waiting list so long that they die waiting for approved treatment, or
b) to reduce the total amount of treatment available to all by making the medical profession so thankless and under-paid that we end up with a reduced number of doctors, who are also unmotivated, thereby killing many but at least we can't specifically identify who the killed folks are.

You knew Kaiser and I would have to spoil another thread crossing foils. 8O

En garde!

[IndyBrit]

[quote=""GeneralMichael""][quote=""djdan""][quote=""Tubruk""][quote=""LoN_Colossus""]Isn't gender determined after nipples are made, so thats why?[/quote]

i dont know tbh could be a possibility, or they may be there to point to warmth when its cold [/quote]

LoN is right, each embryo starts off as a girl, the nipples are formed only then are the male chromosomes formedhence how some men can get actual breasts formed later in in life.[/quote]

Ohh I think there was a case where a man actually had an ovary. Also do you consider the supposedly pregnant guy a real man? For me I don't really consider him a man since he still has a bunch of female parts. Right now I consider him to be an it[/quote]

Man, woman, male, female. Artificial constructions that work well in the vast majority of cases but fail at the margins. Those constructions aren't built for the margins, so stop staring at the margins wondering why the constructions don't work any longer. You might as hold a standard desk ruler trying to decide the width of a hair.

[Tubruk]

[quote=""IndyBrit""]A "defender of the American medicine" might say "of course it happens but the free market system still produces the greatest total good" (although said defender may also say that the "American system" is not really free market but is instead a broken government/private Frankensteinien monstrosity, and that even the evil "national health care" would probably be better than what we have now).

Said defender may also challenge a different kind of defender of a different health care system by asking, is it OK to:
a) tell someone they can have the treatment, but kill them by putting them on a waiting list so long that they die waiting for approved treatment, or
b) to reduce the total amount of treatment available to all by making the medical profession so thankless and under-paid that we end up with a reduced number of doctors, who are also unmotivated, thereby killing many but at least we can't specifically identify who the killed folks are.

You knew Kaiser and I would have to spoil another thread crossing foils. 8O

En garde! [/quote]

why did i have to post

no i enjoy discussions of actual meaning instead of the flaming you see on other forums

[blayzer13]

how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood