Indisputably Mengle tortured kids. His torture methods extended out from his medical training (his understanding/knowledge of human anatomy). Arguably, as he tortured kids, he found out new things or interesting things about human anatomy and psychology.
So: Mengle, torturing kids, was an expression of knowledge and an adding to knowledge.
He was a monster, what he did was wrong, but let's not pretend knowledge wasn't a function of his evil.
henry quirk wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 8:16 pm
I know all this, I just see it (him) different.
I figured you did. But I thought I'd go over it, because the conversation's gone at least four ways at this point.
I like when things get all gordian knotted: means sumthin' interestin' is goin' on. Folks get all passionate, gird their loins, get to swingin' swords.
Amidst all the harumphs and curses thinkin' is goin' on.
henry quirk wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 8:28 pm
I like when things get all gordian knotted: means sumthin' interestin' is goin' on. Folks get all passionate, gird their loins, get to swingin' swords.
Amidst all the harumphs and curses thinkin' is goin' on.
henry quirk wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 8:28 pm
I like when things get all gordian knotted: means sumthin' interestin' is goin' on. Folks get all passionate, gird their loins, get to swingin' swords.
Amidst all the harumphs and curses thinkin' is goin' on.
IC - you are quite simply one of the most pathetic, diversionary, coward debaters on this forum - which means you really have no faith in what you actually know.
henry quirk wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:52 pm
"I'm just as bewildered as anyone."
I guess I should be too, but I find livin' in the world doesn't require a comprehensive understanding of the undergirding of the world, so I'm not.
Well yeah, I can tie my shoelaces without a deep appreciation of the finer points of quantum mechanics, but that's not really the point i was making.
henry quirk wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:52 pmIf, for example, we discover the whole of everything we call Reality is just a dollop of cream cheese smeared on God's bagel, I'll be awfully surprised, will experience five minutes of existential terror, then just get on with it (living).
As Michael Faraday said: “Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”