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eye exaggerate

eye exaggerate

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gorillagrower0840 said:
Once again key word "THOUGHT." Hitler and Stalin and those guys THOUGHT they were right, but they were clearly doing immoral things. You don't need to be a genius to understand that. And you don't need to be a genius to know right from wrong either. In the case of morality, Hitler, Stalin, etc.. were clearly WRONG.

Home invading, pool boy screwing your wife, stock broker churning your 401k, etc... are also wrong. Even if whoever is doing the crime thinks it is right- it is still wrong.

I don't care about your rants about how Bill Gates didn't want to donate and give his money away. That still wouldn't make him a bad person. He worked for his money, he earned it, and he has a right to keep every penny he's ever made for himself if he wanted to.
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*please do not check for the answer first:

Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?

A) Yes.

B) No.

C) Cannot be determined.
 
Moebius

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eye exaggerate said:
*please do not check for the answer first:

Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?

A) Yes.

B) No.

C) Cannot be determined.
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The answer is C
The only two people doing the action of looking are Jack and Anne. While Jack is stated as being married and looking at Anne, her martial status has not been qualified and cannot be determined.
 
Hookabelly

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eye exaggerate said:
*please do not check for the answer first:

Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?

A) Yes.

B) No.

C) Cannot be determined.
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If they are sitting in a circle, yes…

J/K, we need to know if Anne is married, then it would be "yes" It says "but" implying that Anne isn't giving a fuck what Jack is doing b/c she's enamored with George. So my answer is C, but somehow I know that's too obvious so …what is the right answer?
 
eye exaggerate

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Moebius said:
The answer is C
The only two people doing the action of looking are Jack and Anne. While Jack is stated as being married and looking at Anne, her martial status has not been qualified and cannot be determined.
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Duuude!

Hookabelly said:
If they are sitting in a circle, yes…

J/K, we need to know if Anne is married, then it would be "yes" It says "but" implying that Anne isn't giving a fuck what Jack is doing b/c she's enamoured with George. So my answer is C, but somehow I know that's too obvious so …what is the right answer?
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Points for creative/funny response :)
 
eye exaggerate

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Hookabelly said:
SO is "C" the correct answer then? If so, then that wasn't a very hard riddle. What trips ppl up about it?
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The answer is A, Yes.

It was in an article I read about something related to intellectual 'laziness', and how most of us take the easier way to figure out problems like that one. The article was titled "You may be intelligent, but that doesn't make you rational.", from Scientific American.

Kind of fit the theme so I posted it :)
 
Moebius

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eye exaggerate said:
The answer is A, Yes.

It was in an article I read about something related to intellectual 'laziness', and how most of us take the easier way to figure out problems like that one. The article was titled "You may be intelligent, but that doesn't make you rational.", from Scientific American.

Kind of fit the theme so I posted it :)
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I don't see how it could be A ... which married person was looking at which unmarried person?
 
eye exaggerate

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Moebius said:
I don't see how it could be A ... which married person was looking at which unmarried person?
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How's it going??

Jack, the married person, would be looking at Anne who is unmarried (1). If Anne is married, she is looking at George who is unmarried (2).

"Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?" In each possible scenario, a married person is looking at an unmarried person.
 
Moebius

Moebius

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eye exaggerate said:
How's it going??

Jack, the married person, would be looking at Anne who is unmarried (1). If Anne is married, she is looking at George who is unmarried (2).

"Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?" In each possible scenario, a married person is looking at an unmarried person.
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ok cheers. lol
 
eye exaggerate

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Moebius said:
but we just don't know Anne's martial status. it doesn't say. -

Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?
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Anne's status would be either unmarried in which case Jack is looking at her unmarriedness.

If Anne was married (the only other possibility) she would be looking at George's unmarriedness.

We know Jack is married.

We know George is not.

Playing out each possible scenario we have: Jack looking at an unmarried Anne, so, yes, a married person is looking at an unmarried person.

In the case that Anne is married, she is looking at George who we know is unmarried. She can't be married and unmarried at the same time, so either Jack looks at her or she looks at George.
 
Red1966

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gorillagrower0840 said:
Once again key word "THOUGHT." Hitler and Stalin and those guys THOUGHT they were right, but they were clearly doing immoral things. You don't need to be a genius to understand that. And you don't need to be a genius to know right from wrong either. In the case of morality, Hitler, Stalin, etc.. were clearly WRONG.

Home invading, pool boy screwing your wife, stock broker churning your 401k, etc... are also wrong. Even if whoever is doing the crime thinks it is right- it is still wrong.

I don't care about your rants about how Bill Gates didn't want to donate and give his money away. That still wouldn't make him a bad person. He worked for his money, he earned it, and he has a right to keep every penny he's ever made for himself if he wanted to.
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Gee, all that "tax the rich" is all gone now? They were wrong to you maybe, but they were right to themselves. This is why individuals do not have moral authority.
 
Red1966

Red1966

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eye exaggerate said:
Anne's status would be either unmarried in which case Jack is looking at her unmarriedness.

If Anne was married (the only other possibility) she would be looking at George's unmarriedness.

We know Jack is married.

We know George is not.

Playing out each possible scenario we have: Jack looking at an unmarried Anne, so, yes, a married person is looking at an unmarried person.

In the case that Anne is married, she is looking at George who we know is unmarried. She can't be married and unmarried at the same time, so either Jack looks at her or she looks at George.
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unmarriedness?????????????
 
Red1966

Red1966

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gorillagrower0840 said:
Then who does have moral authority genius?

Were Stalin and Hilter right to you?
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Why, The Great Sky Daddy, who else? Wait, you think "Stalin and Hilter" (SIC) are moral authorities? Seriously, no one individual is empowered to decide right and wrong. But society needs such a construct. So we invented law, religion and various forms of governments. All imperfect, but marginally better than letting everyone just do whatever they damn well want.
 
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gorillagrower0840

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Red1966 said:
Why, The Great Sky Daddy, who else? Wait, you think "Stalin and Hilter" (SIC) are moral authorities? Seriously, no one individual is empowered to decide right and wrong. But society needs such a construct. So we invented law, religion and various forms of governments. All imperfect, but marginally better than letting everyone just do whatever they damn well want.
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AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS GUY IS A FUCKING IDIOT?
 
gorillagrower0840

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Why don't you just answer the question I asked you instead of going off on a fucking tangent and talking about a bunch of shit that has nothing to do with anything? Nobody gives a fuck about your babbling bullshit.

Were Stalin and Hilter right to you?

[And then this is the part where you reply "Yes" or "No". And possibly explain why. If that's not too difficult for you.]
 
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