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Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?         


Author: Sanny
Date: Oct 6, 2007 08:33

We say a person is good when

1. He helps his friends
2. He respects his relatives and teachers.
etc.etc. And we say a person is good.

1. He fights with others.
2. Steal things
etc etc. and we say the person is bad.

But When a boy kills a mosquito or ant for no reasion we just ignore
such acts. Why?

Since we are 1000 times bigger size than an ant we have all rights to
kill small insects?

Now I go other way.

Think of Big Countries like USA and IRAQ war. Here Big planes drop
bombs on people. We say since the Planes are big 1000 times that of a
man, It is justified to kill 100s of people by Bombs.

USA dropped Nuclear Bomb on JAPAN and killed millions of people. We
say It was a good job, Just because Bombs were Big.

So when the victim is 1000 times smaller then even if you murder him
it becomes justified.
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Re: Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?         


Date: Oct 6, 2007 10:20

"USA dropped Nuclear Bomb on JAPAN and killed millions of people. We
say It was a good job, Just because Bombs were Big"

Actually, it was a small bomb. That's the whole point of a nuclear
bomb, they are supposed to be small.

Sorry try again.
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Re: Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?         


Author: Sanny
Date: Oct 6, 2007 10:40

On Oct 6, 10:20 pm, collectio...@googlemail.com wrote:
> "USA dropped Nuclear Bomb on JAPAN and killed millions of people. We
> say It was a good job, Just because Bombs were Big"
>
> Actually, it was a small bomb. That's the whole point of a nuclear
> bomb, they are supposed to be small.
>
> Sorry try again.

I was saying the effect of Nuclear Bomb. It destroys an area of 10 sq
KM. And can finish a City into dust within a minute.

A nuclear bomb looks small but it is much devastigating than 1000s of
other bombs.

Bye
Sanny

Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html
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Re: Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?         


Author: Tom
Date: Oct 6, 2007 12:03

"Sanny" hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1191684836.166878.327030@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> We say a person is good when
>
> 1. He helps his friends...

To get rid of the body.
> Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?

It's not the meat, it's the motion.
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Re: Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?         


Author: Erwin Hessle
Date: Oct 6, 2007 12:05

On Oct 6, 11:33 am, Sanny hotmail.com> wrote:
> Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?

The reason "goodness" appears so inconsistent is because it is
*imaginary*.

Erwin Hessle, 8=3
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Re: Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?         


Author: Baird Stafford
Date: Oct 6, 2007 13:35

In article <1191684836.166878.327030@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Sanny hotmail.com> wrote:


> But When a boy kills a mosquito or ant for no reasion we just ignore
> such acts. Why?
>
> Since we are 1000 times bigger size than an ant we have all rights to
> kill small insects?

Have you ever tangled with a next of fire ants?

I didn't think so.

Have you ever been subjected to the exclusive attention of the mosquitos
native to the Everglades, or the Wilderness Areas in the Rocky Mountains?

I didn't think you'd experienced that, either.

As far as "ordinary" ants go, have you ever gotten sick because of a
bacterium ants have tracked over you food?

Have you ever fallen into a nest of yellow jackets? Obviously not, or
you wouldn't be here to utter inanities about the unfairness of human
defenses against arthropodae.
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Re: Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?         


Author: Kisai
Date: Oct 6, 2007 15:30

On Oct 6, 10:33 am, Sanny hotmail.com> wrote:
> We say a person is good when
>
> 1. He helps his friends

When he helps his friends beat someone down for money?
> 2. He respects his relatives and teachers.

In Nazi Germany? As Hitler Youth?
> etc.etc. And we say a person is good.

*You* say a person is good.
> 1. He fights with others.

To get the insurgents out of his country?
> 2. Steal things

To feed his family?
> etc etc. and we say the person is bad.

*You* say a person is bad.
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Re: Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?         


Author: Michael Gordge
Date: Oct 6, 2007 15:42

On Oct 7, 12:33 am, Sanny hotmail.com> wrote:
> It is only when
> you do wrong with a Big person that you become bad.

So what did you do wrong and how big was the bull that dumped its load
in your head then?

MG
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Re: Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?         


Author: Absorbed
Date: Oct 6, 2007 15:52

Sanny wrote:
> 1. He fights with others [...] we say the person is bad.

*Our* nation's soldiers fight with others and cultural norms encourage
us to think they're good, so you're wrong before you even begin.
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Re: Does goodness belong to size only or it is universal?         


Author: tooly
Date: Oct 6, 2007 15:53

"Sanny" hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1191684836.166878.327030@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> We say a person is good when
>
> 1. He helps his friends
> 2. He respects his relatives and teachers.
> etc.etc. And we say a person is good.
>
> 1. He fights with others.
> 2. Steal things
> etc etc. and we say the person is bad.
>
> But When a boy kills a mosquito or ant for no reasion we just ignore
> such acts. Why?
>
> Since we are 1000 times bigger size than an ant we have all rights to
> kill small insects?
>
> Now I go other way.
> ...
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