I had recently watched a good portion of A Clockwork Orange, and after the scene in which

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Alex is conditioned to act morally or become violently ill at the thought of doing otherwise

I thought about how morals and ethics don't always go hand in hand. Though the treatment results in him acting morally, which makes it a moral act, it strips him of his free will, making it also unethical. If it is morally right, but ethically wrong, is it right, or is it wrong. To answer that, one must decide whether...

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Dear Sir/Madam,

We having kidnapped someone very important to you and are holding them hostage. If you ever want to see them again, bring the specified amount of money or other specified goods to the specified meeting place at the specified time. Do not contact the police, or our hostage will die.

Signed,


Us

Don't ask me why I wrote this. I really don't know.

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Plenty of people claim to be philosophers, but if you think about it, aren't we all? We all have (or at least should have) our own unique way of thinking and looking at the world. Philosophers are typically those who have their methods of thinking and looking at the world published, which influences others. Couldn't any one of us do that? I would, though it would probably be very similar to that of Bertrand Russell. That being said, I might as well tell you some of my philosophical views....

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Warning: If you're easily offended when it comes to religion, you might not want to read this, but I still strongly recommend you do, especially if you like to think.

If there's one thing that divides humanity more than anything, it's religion. People will kill and be killed for their beliefs, and to prove what? That unnecessary loss of life somehow better validates your religion? By no means can atrocities serve as evidence to support one's own beliefs.

On the topic...

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Time Travel is far more complicated than science fiction makes it out to be. It is not so simple as figuring out how to travel backwards and forwards in time, but in order to be sure you're able to return to the same present that you left from, we'd also have to figure out how to travel "sideways" in time. Of course, if you think of time as just being a simple straight line, then in a sense, there are no parallel universes and altering timelines is impossible. However, if one were to...

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