EsgarBlackpoxs Mr.lala EsgarBlackpoxs You forgot about the fourth law, though to be fair that isn't totuched upon in the essays. And anyways, there are laws of humanics. It's called "psychohistory" which comes into play in the foundation series, though it is birefly mentioned in the Elijah Bailey/R.Daneel series. And sorry to do so, but it's shred time. Mr.lala 1. A human must protect it's existence at any cost, including the loss of another human. Suicides. Mr.lala 2.. A human must achieve, or attempt to achieve, dominance in the shape or form as defined by the third law. Nope. What about those content to follow? Mr.lala 3. A human must gather outside data to strengthen or weaken the first two laws and determine it's definition of "dominance". If the definition of the word becomes subjective, then so does the laws defined by it. Making it falliable. That's what the "strengthen or weaken" bit is for. If the outside data causes the human to define dominance in that the human must die, the first law is weakened to the point where the third law becomes more important than the first. Those that are content to follow define following as dominance. Dominance really has nothing to do with "live or die" unless you are horribly mutialting the meaning of the word. And again, your third law is basically making the other two subjective. You cannot correctly apply the other two when the meaning of "dominance" is unclear. Basically, your third law in it's current form serves only as an escape clause so you can justify anything that you didn't anticipate or clearly explain. It doesn't acutally predict/regualte the behaviour of humans in any way.
A very valid point when I posted these laws. I'll have to revise them, but I'll keep the other ones up so people can see how they developed.
Mr.lala · Sun Aug 19, 2007 @ 08:37am · 0 Comments |