James, my comment on drawing the moral line at capital punishment was addressed to the universe in general. Judicial executions count for a very small proportion of all death penalties—for example, the death penalty that you get for just being alive for longer than a century or so.
″...the death penalty that you get for just being alive for longer than a century or so.”
The “ethics of gods” most probably is the ethics of evolution. “Good” (in this particular sence) Universe have to be “bad” enough to allow the evolution of live, mind and [probabbly] technology. The shaw is natural selection—and the shaw must go on. Even as it includes aforementioned death penalty...
James, my comment on drawing the moral line at capital punishment was addressed to the universe in general. Judicial executions count for a very small proportion of all death penalties—for example, the death penalty that you get for just being alive for longer than a century or so.
″...the death penalty that you get for just being alive for longer than a century or so.”
The “ethics of gods” most probably is the ethics of evolution. “Good” (in this particular sence) Universe have to be “bad” enough to allow the evolution of live, mind and [probabbly] technology. The shaw is natural selection—and the shaw must go on. Even as it includes aforementioned death penalty...