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Old 07-04-2009, 09:12 AM
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Re: Preordinance and Punishment

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Originally Posted by mmmmm_PIE View Post
What about a robot chef, who feeds information (including salmonella content) into a simple program which outputs a "serve/don't serve" order the robot necessarily follows? Is the robot to be held responsible for any food poisoning? Surely the fault is with the programmer! But what if variables in the code were dictated by the result of some truly random quantum event? Is the universe at large now to blame?
If it was truly random, then no, but then that would be God as a force of nature. There'd be no point in worshipping him, any more than there's a point in worshipping a hurricane or the sun.
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