Universal agreement?

[CrisBrown]

Hi All,

A new Dr. David question.

You're just emerging from the Holy Waters Church of Eternal Ambivalence and, having decided not to go get that abortion after all, you head over to the Gay Gene Therapy Clinic to get your fetus de-homogenized. Along the way, you pass a billboard that says "Universal Agreement, Next Left." As you are a curious sort, you pull into the parking lot and go up to an office, where Dr. Mason sits behind a small desk and in front of a large machine. Dr. Mason explains that he has invented the Universal Agreement Generator. You need only push the button on his desk, and his machine will send out a brain wave to everyone on earth. From that point forward, everyone, everywhere, including unborn children and offspring yet to be conceived, in perpetuity, will agree with YOU on every imaginable moral or philosophical issue.

Assume you know 100% that this machine will actually work. Do you push the button?

Cris

[Demana]

No f***in' way!

I pull out my "Hammer of idiocy destruction +3" and beat the living s*** out of the machine.

Then I take the hammer to the machine's creator so that it can never be recreated.

Funny question though. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[CrisBrown]

Hi Demana,

Why wouldn't you press the button? While the question was posed in a jesting manner, it wasn't entirely in jest. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Cris

[Nemesis]

A very interesting question obviously everyone believes what they believe for a reason... and if they still believe it then it is what they think is the BEST thing to believe. If you aren't willing to push the button then why do you believe some of the things that you do?

[chezlaw]

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A very interesting question obviously everyone believes what they believe for a reason... and if they still believe it then it is what they think is the BEST thing to believe. If you aren't willing to push the button then why do you believe some of the things that you do?

[/ QUOTE ]

I'm in a tricky poker situation. I believe raising is the most +ev play so I raise. Doesn't follow that I think raising is actually the BEST play as I believe that I'm a fairly ordinary poker player.

I apologise for the gratuitous poker content.

[steamboatin]

In any organization, if two people always agree on all subjects, one of them is unnecessary.

[Demana]

Just because I believe something to be right for me does not mean that it is right for everyone.

I don't care for brussel sprouts, but others do (and they still cook them for me when I visit them [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]).

Should I push that button so that I never have to eat brussel sprouts again?

That would just kill the diversity that exists in our world and limit my potential experiences.

Of course by destroying the machine and it's creator, I am exerting my beliefs on everyone else by not allowing them to use the machine...

[Dominic]

[ QUOTE ]
A very interesting question obviously everyone believes what they believe for a reason... and if they still believe it then it is what they think is the BEST thing to believe. If you aren't willing to push the button then why do you believe some of the things that you do?

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Because, as ego-driven as I am, I don't believe I know what's best for everyone - just myself.

Free will, yada yada, etc.

[img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Warik]

I am not Dr. David but I will answer anyway.

Yes I will push the button. I consider myself a very sympathetic humanitarian and it pains me to see so many people wrong about so many things every day. If I push the button, then everybody will always be right just like me and their lives will be better.

That is all. Good night.

[Reef]

wouldn't everyone then think that they are God's gift to poker?

... and I jest too