Poll: Telepaths are Rapists
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It might be closer then you think http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100311/hl_afp/scienceresearchusbritainpsychology_20100311174114
Your mind is the only thing that is private to you. I mean TRULY private. If someone were able to read my mind nothing I do would ever be private, hell, just thinking about the concept of mind-reading/mind-control for a long time can make a person go mental.
I'm under the opinion that things that are adequately distanced from reality should not be judged because doing so is sort of going out of the way to delude one's self.YawehG said:
I suppose the real question here is whether or not one's thoughts are sacred. I'm inclined to believe that someone who places great importance in their mental privacy probably has the most the hide. That being the case, perhaps telepathy would be the opposite of evil in that it brings these injustices to light for resolution.
Quite trite to be so afraid of embarrassment over something as rudimentary as being human.
Duh ofcourse it is, haven't you seen psychic porn?
"Oh yes, make my cerebral cortex tingle"
"But,but I think from there"
"Not right now you don't"
"Oh yes, make my cerebral cortex tingle"
"But,but I think from there"
"Not right now you don't"
Not many actions are inherently evil or good, in a sense. Motivation is more important when deciding moral alignment of an act.
If someone read your mind for the purpose of learning your bank account numbers, that would be evil. If they read your mind to find out what color you would like your brand new motorbike to be, that's not so evil.
Though, there is the concept of a Right to Mind. A person's privacy is a right, so thoughts, being the most private part of a person, are rights as well. But it's rather vague, considering that mind reading isn't real.
If someone read your mind for the purpose of learning your bank account numbers, that would be evil. If they read your mind to find out what color you would like your brand new motorbike to be, that's not so evil.
Though, there is the concept of a Right to Mind. A person's privacy is a right, so thoughts, being the most private part of a person, are rights as well. But it's rather vague, considering that mind reading isn't real.
If it was real, no, rape is where you force yourself onto someone, and fuck them (or something like that) and they KNOW you're doing it and don't want you to
How about projecting thoughts? Like communicating without words. I can only imagine that would be the purest form of communication.
I don't think it's all that evil. But I see how it is morally objectionable.
I don't think it's all that evil. But I see how it is morally objectionable.
Mind reading without consent could be consider sort of a "mind-rape" but it's rather gray on a moral level. I mean forcably rooting through someones mind would be quite a no-no, but just skimming off the foremost thoughts of somebody I wouldn't consider too bad. Also why you're doing it in the first place has a big part in whether you can consider the act "evil". Finding the location of an armed bomb by thought-reading a terrorist could be considered justified, while just looking through someones memories for the kicks probably isn't the nicest thing you can do.
As for if it's consensual then by all means it's totally fine. Then telepathy is just a very intimate form of conversation.
As for if it's consensual then by all means it's totally fine. Then telepathy is just a very intimate form of conversation.
