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Re:The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work by shkkmo on Thursday December 03, 2015 @10:34PM (#10674425)
Please provide a single example of when "all things being equal and outside of coercion" (using your extremely broad definition of 'coercion') a human made a choice to live rather than die.

Or is your 'universal attribute' some sort of 'ideal' that doesn't actually ever happen and thus is completely useless for defining the set of 'human' and 'not human', let alone 'moral' and 'immoral'.

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Re:The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work by woodman on Thursday December 03, 2015 @10:52PM (#10674487)
Sure, you woke up and didn't kill yourself. As did most every human being that has ever existed, because humans don't do that outside of very strange circumstances that are out of their control.
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