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   From: f00@0f0.00f   
      
   Jerry Buchanan wrote:   
   > On 11/21/2025 12:07 PM, jojo wrote:   
   >> Jerry Buchanan wrote:   
   >>> On 11/21/2025 11:19 AM, jojo wrote:   
   >>>> Jerry Buchanan wrote:   
   >>>>> On 11/21/2025 10:57 AM, jojo wrote:   
   >>>>>> Clave wrote:   
   >>>>>>> If a storm breaks off a tree limb, and the limb hits the   
   >>>>>>> corner of your roof and takes off some of the eave and   
   >>>>>>> gutter, that's bad. If the limb crashes entirely through   
   >>>>>>> your roof and lands in the living room, that's worse.   
   >>>>>>> Goodness and badness – as practical consequences, not   
   >>>>>>> morality — occur along a spectrum. If you get an estimate   
   >>>>>>> for an automotive repair of $500, and it only ends up   
   >>>>>>> costing you $400, that's good. If it only ends up costing   
   >>>>>>> you $200, that's better, i.e. "more good."   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Morality is not like that. If you steal one tool (rake,   
   >>>>>>> shovel) from the side of your neighbor's house, that's   
   >>>>>>> wrong. If you steal all the tools, that's wrong, and it is   
   >>>>>>> not "more wrong" than stealing only one. Stealing all of   
   >>>>>>> them is a worse *practical* outcome for the neighbor, but   
   >>>>>>> either action is just wrong.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> so you're saying mortality is independent of goodness or   
   >>>>>> badness?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I'm not saying anything about mortality, idiot.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> You attempted to equivocate on goodness/badness. I stopped you.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> so it is dependent on goodness and badness?   
   >>>   
   >>> You're attempting to equivocate again. It won't work again.   
   >>   
   >> i see, too bad.. or good??   
   >   
   > You don't see that your equivocation game collapsed.   
      
   so was that a good thing or a bad thing?   
      
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