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From: janeanddano@yahoo.com
"Obveeus" wrote in message
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>
> "trag" wrote:
>> On Mar 30, 4:03 pm, "Dano" wrote:
>>> Jonathan? Do you mean Daniel Graystone? Zoe's dad? I don't find him
>>> even
>>> a bit sympathetic. It's his products...inventions...that have done
>>> possibly
>>> irreperable damage to their society. And I don't think that's
>>> overstating
>>> it. Mind you, I'm not even counting what we know is going to come of
>>> his
>>> Cylons.
>>
>> The folks "ruining" their society (in your prudish eyes) weren't
>> forced to behave the way they do. For that matter, every one of them
>> is *hacking* their headset in order to participate in the activities
>> you decry.
>
> It seems to me that the virtual world in Caprica is a direct
> representation of the internet here on current Earth. Whether it is
> people doing ameteur porn, stealing music, playing first player shoot-em
> up role playing games, sexting (whatever the non-phone version of that is
> called), etc...
>
> So, if Graystone should die for creating the online world on Caprica, who
> do we lynch her eon Earth? Bill Gates? Heads of Intel, Google, Youtube,
> Facebook, MySpace? Is there one person to lynch or should everyone that
> made technology possible be killed? ...yikes, that gets dangerously close
> to the moral of the new BSG.
>
Who said anything about lynching? He made a pretty serious enemy when he
ordered the theft that led to the Taurons being killed. I think there might
just be a crime worthy of prosecution there however.
>> Most of the Adamas actually are murderers apparently.
>
> Yep.
Really? Which ones? Sounds like a spurious and unsubstantiated accusation
to me. We know that Graystone is indirectly a murderer however. That is a
fact.
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