I just thought of what I think to be a very fascinating thought experiment on my drive just now. The conversation around the potential for nuclear fallout has gotten me to think about the government's role in sharing w/ the public information as it relates to an actual or suspected world-ending event. Would the world's astronomers share with the world of an incoming massive stellar object that would eliminate life on Earth as we know it? Or, would they try and keep it secret out of concern that humanity may not be fortified enough to keep social decorum under a guaranteed expiration date? For that reason, through the lens of a thought experiment, I'm curious what the people of PaRD would do.

If you were on a small team of researchers that discovered a phenomenon that is guaranteed to end all of human life in 3 years (ie. An incoming massive asteroid, solar flare, etc.), would you vote to make that information public or would you vote to that information purely within the room/team. Assume for this thought experiment 3 things:

1. Your team is so smart that you're the only ones who currently and will ever discover this threat.

2. The threat is so massive that it cannot be stopped or avoided, and it is guaranteed to end all human life as we know it/destroy Earth.

3. If everyone votes to keep the information secret within the team, then they actually do so (ie. a guarantee that there's no leaks now or ever).

reveal it and make your argument why its true. get your affairs in order

leftie fraud elites would keep it a secret because they are pathological liars

scripture says he will be coming like a thief in the night. that leaves out the fakers

This post was edited by TiStuff on Oct 7 2022 06:59pm

Interesting. Can you tell me a bit about why you'd reveal it?

not telling would be a lie

And you find lying to be profoundly unethical.

yes

same reason i find cancel culture so grotesque. cancel culture is nothing more than liar culture

I see. Fascinating. Thanks for sharing your perspective, and I think this thought experiments shows how sacred you consider telling the truth.

You would have to tell people.
With 8 billion people in the worlds, there's probably 100,000 Forest Gumps out there.





This post was edited by Ghot on Oct 7 2022 07:32pm

Keep it secret. Remember how many BLM looters we had when they thought there would be no consequences? Now, imagine if the consequences for rape, murder, etc. was only 3 years max. We'd have unmitigated chaos and it would make life miserable for everyone else. I think there's a subset of the population that would actually be more loving, caring, etc. but I'm not sure how we'd be able to separate them from the animals.