[DavidC]

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and he is compassionate in the same manner that humans are compassionate...


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You can of course make this assumption if you want, but do you really think it will lead to any insightful results?


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Uh... I don't know.

You start with some assumptions, then make some conclusions. Then look at the conclusions and look at the assumptions again to determine if they're all correct (this is a little easier than looking merely at the assumptions to determine if they're correct, sometimes). Eventually you have some sort of axiom system where all of your assumptions can be seen to be correct, from which all conclusions are based, or something like that, right?

So, I guess this is some sort of completely retarded step in that direction.

The process, as I've described it, is iterative, and thus, it may not initially yield meaningful results.