If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?
Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure. - Robert J. Sawyer
Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.
- Robert J. Sawyer
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? .… - Robert J. Sawyer
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? .…
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. - Robert J. Sawyer
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim. - Robert J. Sawyer
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large. - Robert J. Sawyer
Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested. - Robert J. Sawyer
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules? - Robert J. Sawyer
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases. - Robert J. Sawyer
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied c… - Robert J. Sawyer
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied c…
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