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By: highpopeofsmokes

highpopeofsmokes — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:12:32 +0000

By the way, let me answer this “if you’re alone in the island, who will you choose” kind of question.

that kind of question is really tiring if you have the choice between saving 2 lives then its a gimme you sacrifice your life to save the 2. the gall of somepeople.

By: Dean Jorge Bocobo

Dean Jorge Bocobo — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:42:56 +0000

High Priest,
Blogging and anonymity have the same effect on some people as alcohol: uninhibited giddiness. Get a grip, man!

By: Bencard

Bencard — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:59:39 +0000

you got it all wrong, mr. highpriest (or whatever). when i say “lesser evil”, it is the evil of abandoning (or not saving) the wife over the daughter and vice versa. if, as in your example, you decide to save your wife because you can “make” (i would say procreate) another daughter, then that is the lesser evil, at least in your mind.

By: thehighpriestofsmokes

thehighpriestofsmokes — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:12:29 +0000

By the way, let me answer this “if you’re alone in the island, who will you choose” kind of question.

Men choose not on the basis of “lesser evils”, but on the basis of their personal biases. It may be that it’s not the lesser evil to choose one’s wife over one’s daughter, since you can’t have sex with your daughter to create another daughter (that would be incest); yet you can always choose your wife since she can make another daughter anyway. so, it’s not the lesser evil. and is the daughter or the wife, evil? Not!

By: thehighpriestofsmokes

thehighpriestofsmokes — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:08:23 +0000

all of you,

what ship of state are you talking about djb? there’s no proverbial ship of state? I noticed here in Manila, political writers always go back to that allegory written by Rizal some centuries ago. We don’t live in that milieu of Rizal. We’re in the 21st century, djb.

Simple–there is no superior generation. There is an ascendant generation and we are it. Our predecessors will not, in any way, be better than us. Why? Because we’ll not let them. For example, will I allow a younger candidate to defeat me in the polls? Obviously not. Voters always prefer old guys like me. In the same vein, will I allow a younger barrister to make mince meat of me before the courts? Again, obviously, not.

The point is–here in this country, the younger generation is always inferior than those before them, simply because we allow them to.

By: Dean Jorge Bocobo

Dean Jorge Bocobo — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:26:08 +0000

Benj,

Generation upon generation of Filipino doctors have passed through PGH, to look at horror bare, as it were. But, believe it or not, there are even worse places!

You ain’t seen nothing yet, so pluck up your courage and turn your face to the wind. Bid farewell to the fears of childhood, and take your place on the Ship of State.

Just wait till you have to raise a family all your own.

The word “context” will take on a whole ‘nuther meaning.

By: Bencard

Bencard — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:35:14 +0000

in all fairness to benj and all like-minded individuals here, the issue that he has presented in this post is an example of the classic moral dilemma that has been with humanity for ages. it is a variation of the hypothesis: if faced with the choice of saving your wife or your beloved only daughter in a situation where you can only save one, who will you choose? it calls for a choice of the proverbial “lesser evil”. but the question remains, which one is the lesser evil?

the trouble is, in trying to defend his choice, benj had to resort to bellicose rhetoric against the whole “old generation”, betraying a less than compassionate attitude towards elderly folks (including, perhaps, his parents).

By: jepoy

jepoy — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:11:44 +0000

@thehighpriestofsmokes – Yeah I’m a mortal and probably will die early because of smokers who destroy mother nature while puffing and puffing like there’s no tomorrow. And yes, I have no brains (or my brain cells have probably melted) and I don’t care what you wrote.

I was addressing the joke to benj not you. Smoking effects FTW!

ktnxbai.