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Post by The Rogue on Dec 29, 2006 13:33:11 GMT -5
The only difference is that we kill each other, and much less other animal species.
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Post by Jarlaxle on Dec 29, 2006 21:53:03 GMT -5
Human cultures could be viewed as a different species. Humans generally fight other cultures other than those within their own culture.
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Post by The Rogue on Dec 29, 2006 22:09:00 GMT -5
Yes, that's true, but they still kill other humans.
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Dec 29, 2006 22:25:28 GMT -5
Another similarity is that the majority of humans are not called upon to physically fight and kill other humans, only a select few do that task in war, the "hunters" of the group, if you will. Very like animals in that sense, though I doubt any animal is as lazy as humans can be (Sloth included). In reality, it is really only the reason and means of violence (And war) that change, the conflict is always fundamentally the same.
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Post by The Rogue on Dec 29, 2006 22:41:05 GMT -5
True. That does make sense come to think of it.
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Post by Jarlaxle on Jan 7, 2007 22:10:58 GMT -5
I wonder if one day humans might develop a weapon meant to be used on the mind that later becomes more efficient and obviously more subtle than guns and bombs. It would be a dangerous thing to develop and its applications would be vast for interrogations, espionage, all out war and much more.
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Jan 7, 2007 22:37:33 GMT -5
If humans survive long enough, its possible. Though it is a far-off possibility to be able to mentally attack someone's mind. If humans aren't destroyed by then, such a technology would surely speed the process. Being able to attack anyone's mind at will, there would quickly be no one left alive. However, if it took great skill to use the ability, there would not be so many people using it. An interesting thought, and it it would be intriguing to use.
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Post by Jarlaxle on Jan 8, 2007 0:09:55 GMT -5
But very dangerous as you suggest. If everybody could do that, then getting away with murder would be easy (unless a form of mind probes are employed) to get away with. I would imagine that in its initial stages of development, there would be many moral and ethical objections to such technology.
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Post by The Rogue on Jan 9, 2007 16:29:39 GMT -5
Wait. How would you be able to actually kill a person by getting to their mind?
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Post by buttonpresser4815 on Jan 9, 2007 17:10:19 GMT -5
There are numerous ways, perhaps making them kill themselves, or maybe disturbing things that the brain controls, such as reaction to heat or the ability to breath. Once you are in the brain, its like being in a room full of gasoline and dynamite with you holding the match.
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Post by The Rogue on Jan 9, 2007 18:08:35 GMT -5
True. I wasn't thinking about that.
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Jan 9, 2007 22:43:42 GMT -5
If the technology came about, there would be countless ways to disrupt the brain. Even the slightest imbalance of some chemical, a slight quirk in a gland would be enough to affect and damage the entire body, needless to say that if one had the expertise and knowledge to know the intricacies of the brain, control would be vast.
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Post by The Rogue on Jan 10, 2007 15:41:20 GMT -5
Heck, someone could become dictator of the world...and fast.
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Jan 10, 2007 22:37:34 GMT -5
Yet, unless there is some way to defend oneself from this ability, this dictator could be ousted just as quickly.
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Post by Jarlaxle on Jan 10, 2007 23:26:43 GMT -5
And it would be an endless cycle of that until everyone decides to stop using this technology or until they all die. Potentially you could kill one with a thought. If you can force one to believe that he is drowning for example, they would hold their breath and probably go into shock and die soon after.
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