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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Superman... the Horror!

The part I found relevant.  A message from aliens with super-advanced technology cannot be un-garbled by the very same aliens with advanced technology... but the un-garbled message can be authenticated and verified by human so-called "experts"... @@

...the Reed-Solomon encoding on it must have been Super-tight.

“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”
–Hannah Ardent, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

Ethics are an externally imposed value system.  Morals are internally imposed value system.  The "banality of evil" is the acceptance of these externally imposed values and acting according to them, against your own individual/ personal moral codeAntigone v. Creon

Antigone is the Greek Don Quixote The Ones who walk away from Omelas.  :)
"I had to be restrained, because I was doing too much good."
Kurtz, "Heart of Darkness"

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