Quoting form some source I can't remember right now:

"The gods kill men as watonly as children kill insects."

Or something like that. I'm going to say Nietzche. Second though Nietzche always thought that god was dead and it was only thru our own action that we could achieve things, so not Nietzche.

And yes the arguement of living in ignorant bliss or knowing the whole terrible truth and deciding what to do with it. Horrible truth every time.

i remember watching this news item on CBC about this guy who lost his hearing in one ear because a fly or something flew into it - like deep enough that it fucked something up. Since then i've revised my rules about flying buzzing insects, and i will kill them every time. if it's a bug's life or my hearing i say BRING THA LITTLE MUTHAFUCKAZ ON!!!
heh, Bug's Life.

er... that should be "benevolent".

but that's just it, bugs don't have the mental capacity to know that their life has been saved. Nor does a human being necessarily have the mental capacity to see their own life being saved on a cosmic scale. Nonetheless, after contemplating the bug metaphor, would you not hope that whatever cosmic forces ruled your own life would be beneveolent enough to refrain from killing you out of sheer laziness? What other reason is there for killing the bug as opposed to taking it outside? Laziness. It's easier to end another living creature's life than save it. And in what respect can you say one life is worth more than another's?

I find it difficult to kill a bug anymore.

I definately think Al should invent a 13-sided die. Just because it would be very cool.

And, anonymous, I don't think that bugs have the mental capacity large enough to conceptualize a god. I think things like suddenly being moved outside just happen and they just continue along. Actually sounds kinda nice, if you ask me.

Go Al! Do it!

By the way, what's with all this 'judgemental' business over dice? What if you stumbled upon someone rolling an electric 10000 sided dice that constantly changed numbers on all sides? What then? WHAT SAY YOU!?! JUDGE ME DAMN YOU!

Oh, I do think an electric die would be neat to have. You can roll it yourself and watch the electric version spin as well! Then, maybe without you knowing, when you spin that die, you spin your life.

EDIT: MWA HAHAHAHAHAHA...HAHAHAHA.... Good afternoon.

All this talk of dices has given me a idea, I think I should put my mechanical engineering degree to use and make the worlds first 13 sided dice. It might be a tad on the physical impossible side but if it fails maybe a quatum singularity will be created instead.

bah... way to see right through me Alison... way to take the fun out everything :)

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An insect crawls along your kitchen floor. You take a sheet of paper towel and place it in front of the insect to crawl upon. You release the insect outside.

WHEN YOU ARE AN INSECT, WHO IS YOUR GOD?