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Originally posted by Ash_
i'd prefer a world where suitable punishment is regularly enforced against offenders of the worst crimes. where a life is worth a life and not a 15 year jail sentence in some countries. but hey, you believe in god i believe in science so theres no point in arguing.
I "believe" in science but I also think that a life for a life is a bad idea. It's in humanitys nature to kill, not only to survive, but also as an act of revenge. Luckily, we're not stupid or otherwise we'd all have killed each other by now (it's not like the case of an eye for an eye, you can take someone elses eye after they've taken yours, but if someone kills you, someone else has to kill them, and then they have to be killed, and so on and so forth).
As for the second law of thermodynamics, I'll point you to
here.
Energy is never productive unless it's entered into a system. But without the energy from the Sun, life on Earth would cease to exist. (And the Sun itself is tending to entropy as the heat it produces escapes, and to produce more heat Hydrogen has to be used up... and eventually the Sun goes supernova)
It's also widely believed (although the Physics explaining it just goes straight over my head) that the universe is an open system. (I don't know where it's energy comes from, but when more than one person more intelligent than me agree on something, I tend to believe them).
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