My Darwin Slave Challenge

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Do you think MOHER NATURE approves of slavery?

Mother Nature doesn't have an opinion since Mother Nature is not an actual entity. It's an illustrative personification. It's not real.

 

[AV1611VET]

I don´t know that MOTHER NATURE is a conscious entity with moral convictions, in the first place.

LOL ... okay.

I guess I'm not gonna get a straight answer with this challenge, am I?

I tried to make the question as simple as possible and limit the answer to a simple YES or NO.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

LOL ... okay.

I guess I'm not gonna get a straight answer with this challenge, am I?

I tried to make the question as simple as possible and limit the answer to a simple YES or NO.

BUT IT WASN'T A STRAIGHT YES OR NOT ANSWER TO BEGIN WITH.

 

[AV1611VET]

Mother Nature doesn't have an opinion since Mother Nature is not an actual entity. It's an illustrative personification. It's not real.

LOL ... solid aurum.

 

[AV1611VET]

BUT IT WASN'T A STRAIGHT YES OR NOT ANSWER TO BEGIN WITH.

Okay.

 

[quatona]

LOL ... okay.

I guess I'm not gonna get a straight answer with this challenge, am I?

From me you had a straight answer: I don´t know, and I am not inclined to guess.

I tried to make the question as simple as possible and limit the answer to a simple YES or NO.

I recall an incident where I channelled you and asked you a "simple yes or no question" - and you immediately refused to answer, simply because you do know that a loaded question doesn´t allow for a "simple yes or no answer". So spare me the stupid games.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Let's don't.

This isn't about human slavery.

I thought I telegraphed that in my OP with the "unilateral" remark?

Which is why I took the effort to separate my response to cover both human and non-human slavery. Quite bilateral on my part.

But, due to your preference for half-truths, you only chose to respond to half my response.

The disappointing thing, AV, is that you're no longer capable of disappointing me.

 

[TLK Valentine]

LOL ... okay.

I guess I'm not gonna get a straight answer with this challenge, am I?

I tried to make the question as simple as possible and limit the answer to a simple YES or NO.

I gave you a straight answer. You ignored it.

Why are you lying to us, AV?

 

[AV1611VET]

Nature doesn't care about slavery since nature is not an intellectual entity. It's an environment. Nothing more.

Then how is it she doesn't care about slavery, if she can't care about slavery?

 

[TLK Valentine]

LOL ... okay.

I guess I'm not gonna get a straight answer with this challenge, am I?

I tried to make the question as simple as possible and limit the answer to a simple YES or NO.

YES or NO are the only ways your "gotcha" questions ever work, AV... if you want to be disingenuous, get better at it.

 

[AV1611VET]

I recall an incident where I channelled you and asked you a "simple yes or no question" - and you immediately refused to answer, simply because you do know that a loaded question doesn´t allow for a "simple yes or no answer". So spare me the stupid games.

Unlike your challenge directly to me, I put this 'stupid game' out to anyone willing to answer.

You didn't even have to read it, if you didn't want to.

So spare me the compartmentalization ... this challenge doesn't have your name written all over it.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Then how is it she doesn't care about slavery, if she can't care about slavery?

Surely you're smart enough to see the answer right there in your own question, right AV?

 

[quatona]

Unlike your challenge directly to me, I put this 'stupid game' out to anyone willing to answer.

You didn't even have to read it, if you didn't want to.

...and I also had the freedom to read it and answer it as I see fit.

 

[AV1611VET]

Surely you're smart enough to see the answer right there in your own question, right AV?

He's saying she doesn't care about slavery because she can't care about slavery.

If she can't care, how is it she doesn't care?

 

[AV1611VET]

...and I also had the freedom to read it and answer it as I see fit.

Just don't tell me to spare you something that wasn't aimed at you specifically and expect me to feel bad.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

He's saying she doesn't care about slavery because she can't care about slavery.

If she can't care, how is it she doesn't care?

Because nature has no emotions! It is an environment! It has no intellect of any sort.

 

[TLK Valentine]

He's saying she doesn't care about slavery because she can't care about slavery.

If she can't care, how is it she doesn't care?

There's your answer.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Because nature has no emotions! It is an environment! It has no intellect of any sort.

Forget it, Warden -- you forget, AV venerates ignorance (wears it like a badge, by his own admission). This was the inevitable outcome.

 

[Jimmy D]

 

[Cearbhall]

What a thread title.

In your opinion, did Darwin approve of slavery?

I have no idea. I've never looked into his opinions on that matter.