A few centuries ago, a few thousand years ago, it was fine and dandy to go up to someone, kill them, rape their loved one, kill them or do whatever. And now it's not. In another few hundred years, maybe a few thousand, things will also be different.

An odd interpretation of our progress. Personally, I would prefer to use words like "advance" or "learned" rather than "different". The fact is, we've made an advance from that time. If we lived in a time where rape was okay, and now it isn't, that's a wonderful thing. To say that it might be "different" in the future, instead of further advanced, is suggesting that we could regress. That there might be a time when rape is looked upon as okay again. Personally, I can't think of any modern examples of ethical regressions. Once we figure out that something is bad, we tend to stick with it. So, yes, future views on ethics will be different, but they will most likely be better.

Then that therefore means those laws had to be created or that they formed from a base of something. And that's approaching rapidly on a creator or a god.

Please, refer to my first post. We create the laws through our sentient existence. You conceded in your previous post that without our sentient experience, everything would be pointless--and you are correct. So, our conscious experience gives all meaning in the universe. Why's that? Because we can feel. We can hurt. This, in itself, outlines our objective moral system.

This is why I hate the word "morality". I prefer ethics, or "objective value system". Because it does have divine connotations. I think we should throw the word "morality" out the window.

Our objective value system is defined by our capacity to derive negative experience from our lives. The ultimate goal is to maximize positive experience, and minimize negative experience for all sentient beings. That's the right thing to do, objectively.

If you've ever watched a good film lately, and paid attention to the villains, the "bad guys", the antagonists, and paid strict attention to their purpose in the story, you might take to notice that, even though they're evil, their philosophies often have some kernel of truth. They might be trying to work for the greater good. Take Ultron for example (I won't spoil it if you haven't seen the film). As outlined in the film, he was created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner to help the Avengers save the world in future global crises. However, when he is finished, he's bent on destroying humanity instead. He cannot differentiate between saving humanity and destroying it--he thinks they're the same thing.

And there's a great line, but I can't seem to remember how it goes. It went something like:
"The question isn't whether he believes humanity should be destroyed. The question is if he's right."

Something to that effect. Would the world be better off without humans?
Should we stop reproducing and let ourselves go extinct?

There are right or wrong answers to these questions. It's true that we can have our interpretations, but if you're capable of making decisions based on logic (it is logical to not want to break someone's arm, because that's going to create a HUGE deficit in positive feeling), the choices become more and more clear.

everyone loves drugs

*post*

OOPS proved you wrong

i'm a terrible friend because i care about their welfare and mental wellbeing, yeah

LOOK AT THIS SHIT

Taking it as merely, "Everything is a substance so just injest whatever you want to," says to me that you're not getting what I'm trying to convey. Which is fine, I wouldn't expect you to, as opinionated as you are. It's not surprising you'd think I'd be using such a fact to condone drug use even though I explicitly stated that I wasn't.

then what was your point

to tell me something that i already know
hence, "spare me"

thank you

i mean really, that's like telling someone who's trying to be healthy, "well, EVERYTHING is unhealthy"

and while you're not wrong, per se, it's just pedantic and irritating

“I wouldn’t even be mad if they put something from the Quran.”

Sure you wouldn't!

How would it be bad when you wouldn't even see those faces? Like I said your game would still remain the same and whatever I do to mine would not affect yours at all.

you couldn't have possibly made that less clear if you tried

either way, i don't care
i'm not just concerned about my own experience; i never am

Because whoever did the video is pissing on the developers art by editing those faces on the models and changing the music to something else.

youtube videos do not affect the game itself at all, whatsoever

Quote from: A Cheese Potato on May 05, 2015, 08:04:10 AM

YouTube

Oh man Verb is going to shit himself when he sees that. That would be one epic mod.

why would i

well there you go

I don't into politics at all, but shouldn't something like this, which to me seems distorting a message to force votes, be illegal?

you'd also have to want to ban campaign ads and shit

which i'm all for

but this barely qualifies as "distorting a message" because you'd have to be an absolute halfwit to not realize what they're telling you to do (and you're certainly not a halfwit just because you may not be able to read english)

i just wrote that one down in my meme book (where i keep all my epic memes)

i hope you don't mind

Quote from: Verbatim on May 04, 2015, 10:59:18 PM

why can't i ever come up with interesting or pertinent things to ask when it comes to these threads

Because you're boring

if i can't come up with a question to ask someone, it's probably because i don't find them interesting enough, not the other way around

how do you feel about death grips