Morality and killing
Killing is morally wrong universally, for most people adhering to a moral system, right? What about killing an aggressor that tries to kills hundreds of people in your community?Suddenly that killing...
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The Capitalism theory
We have many anecdotal evidences that economical capitalism creates more welfare than economical communism. However, we lack a clear model to explain what is necessary for the capitalism to work and w...
Evil as striving for a local maximum
Let's observe first that we tend to attribute evil when there is a sufficient capacity of understanding the consequences of one's actions. A small child that produces a tragical accident is not consid...
Hell
Being burned in hell for an eternity is not the worst that can happen. Even worse than this, for me, is to be entirely washed out from Existence. Burning in hell looks pretty painful indeed, but it st...
Black Friday theory
Better reads:Data Consistency in Distributed System - CAP, PACELCMorality series - a heptalogyThis blog is mainly focused on my Philosophical and theoretical ideas.From time to time I have practical p...
How can we all be right even when we believe incompatible things
Reality is pretty complex, alright... Normally we expect reality to be far more complex than we can comprehend in a limited human mind. Each time we look to one object, many other objects go outside o...
On Philosophy - essay
One philosopher said that "philosophy is a natural act of human living" and I agree with him. But what brings philosophy in addition to "regular" science"? I find Philosophy to be a kind of "meta-sci...
About consciousness
How would you define consciousness? Is dreaming a form of consciousness? What happens when you pass out? Consciousness (like in "aware of himself") is a subjective perception that is normally easily a...
The jug and the bird
In my 5'th grade, the new professor of Mathematics told us a puzzle: there is a jug with water staying in the desert, and a bird wants to drink some water. However, the jug have a tight neck, like the...
Irrational numbers
This article contains my personal reflections on irrational numbers, especially the informational property of their infinite strings of decimal - strings that often look close to random at a shallow l...