Philosophical Dolphin Genocide
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the majority of my classmates?
No, I'm not going to elaborate on that. I'm too busy doing other things. Currently, those other things consist of reading web pages but any second now I'm going to go and do more Visual BASIC. Last night my excuse for leaving it so late was Maths homework (which it turns out I only did half of anyway... and most of the class was away on a trip, the remainder hadn't done it either and we ended up not handing it in).
Tonight, I have an inexplicably sore arm, something which has not been aided by having to work on a Computing presentation for tomorrow, in addition to the code I still have to write. I figure I'll do another 10 or so pages from my VB sheets and then maybe do a little more during a study period tomorrow, after putting the finishing touches on that presentation and in between bouts of Street Fighter II.
Not that anyone will play me at Street Fighter any more. I'm just too damn good (comparatively speaking). Ever seen a grown LAN gamer cry? It's a highly amusing sight.
Due to both my rush to get this done and the rather hectic day I've had, I've not got much to say here. What I will do is pose a question, one that I shall discuss at greater length tomorrow, in the vain hope that I'll have got some answers by tomorrow. A friend of mine was wondering about this in the common room today and it sparked a surprisingly deep discussion.
If you had to, would you kill 10,000 dolphins to save a single human child?
If you think that's a bit extreme, then consider this: how many animals of a given species would you be willing to sacrifice to save a single human life?
Think on that for a while and get back to me. I have to go either code stuff or come up with a plausible rationalisation for not coding stuff.
No, I'm not going to elaborate on that. I'm too busy doing other things. Currently, those other things consist of reading web pages but any second now I'm going to go and do more Visual BASIC. Last night my excuse for leaving it so late was Maths homework (which it turns out I only did half of anyway... and most of the class was away on a trip, the remainder hadn't done it either and we ended up not handing it in).
Tonight, I have an inexplicably sore arm, something which has not been aided by having to work on a Computing presentation for tomorrow, in addition to the code I still have to write. I figure I'll do another 10 or so pages from my VB sheets and then maybe do a little more during a study period tomorrow, after putting the finishing touches on that presentation and in between bouts of Street Fighter II.
Not that anyone will play me at Street Fighter any more. I'm just too damn good (comparatively speaking). Ever seen a grown LAN gamer cry? It's a highly amusing sight.
Due to both my rush to get this done and the rather hectic day I've had, I've not got much to say here. What I will do is pose a question, one that I shall discuss at greater length tomorrow, in the vain hope that I'll have got some answers by tomorrow. A friend of mine was wondering about this in the common room today and it sparked a surprisingly deep discussion.
If you had to, would you kill 10,000 dolphins to save a single human child?
If you think that's a bit extreme, then consider this: how many animals of a given species would you be willing to sacrifice to save a single human life?
Think on that for a while and get back to me. I have to go either code stuff or come up with a plausible rationalisation for not coding stuff.
posted by Alasdair Corbett at
11:04 PM
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