Timeline for Is Death a Feature or a Bug? [closed]
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| Jan 3, 2023 at 14:33 | history | closed |
Conifold Brian Z Mauro ALLEGRANZA Mary RodolfoAP |
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| Jan 2, 2023 at 23:02 | answer | added | Professor Sushing | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 2, 2023 at 20:42 | answer | added | J D | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 1, 2023 at 16:10 | vote | accept | Hudjefa | ||
| Jan 1, 2023 at 16:07 | comment | added | Hudjefa | @Conifold, that's an interesting remark. Merci. | |
| Jan 1, 2023 at 15:49 | answer | added | CriglCragl | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 1, 2023 at 14:49 | comment | added | Conifold | If you are hoping for "one right answer" there isn't any. Let's say mortality is necessary to sustain the biosphere. So what? It isn't like the biosphere was designed with a goal of sustaining it, it just evolved. We talk about bugs and features in intentional designs, not in natural occurrences. Some believe that life was, indeed, designed by a Creator. Then the question makes sense, but death is a feature for other reasons, like punishment for sin. People can equally talk about mortality in subjunctive mood: if they were designing life they'd leave death out. So it is a bug. And so on. | |
| Jan 1, 2023 at 13:47 | comment | added | Hudjefa | Should I delete the question? 🙂 It's just that people treat death as a bug (the field of medicine is, inter alia, about preventing/postponing death) and yet, as demonstrated in the question, death is a feature, as of the moment absolutely necessary to avoid catastrophic population explosion. That said, I can see a better solution take form. | |
| Jan 1, 2023 at 12:40 | comment | added | Conifold | Why edit? You already answered your own question in each of the two senses, so what is left to ask? | |
| Jan 1, 2023 at 12:37 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 1, 2023 at 12:35 | comment | added | Hudjefa | Gracias for the feedback. How should I improve the question then? I can edit it with valuable input from you. | |
| Jan 1, 2023 at 12:15 | comment | added | Conifold | You do realize that setting up two different senses in which a question can be asked and then asking it without specifying the intended sense makes the question ill-formed and the asking pointless? You might as well ask whether lime is a fruit or a building material. | |
| Jan 1, 2023 at 11:54 | history | asked | Hudjefa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |