THE OTCA Philosophy & Ethics Thread.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

This will be a touchy topic, as it could delve into the realm of unresolvable issues (which we don't permit). See how it goes I guess, but I will shut it down if people start ranting or agressively argueing.

Cheers chief, we probably will get a lot of unresolvable stuff but as long as people play nice it could be workable.

Well, there goes most of Nietzsche's topics....

I'm a Nietzsche fan myself - I'll be good.

So we can't talk about Sky Daddies?

Better not to, but it's bound to come up sooner or later. Tread softly, and if possible talk about Primus or the Quintessons instead.

So is the point of this thread to discuss general philisophy and ethics and/or not TF specific? Because I have views on Transformer ethics and philisophy. Eg. From the Transformers point of view spoilers for ROTF: I don't think Megatron killing Sam to help save their race is such a bad thing, but destroying the sun and therefore Sam's whole race is but I think this may be an unresolvable issue.

TF specific was pretty much my intention, we do have these issues/questions arise from time to time so now we have a place to discuss them without derailing other areas.
By the same token we also have non-TF issues come up and while I'm OK with non-TF specific topics as well, they do have a lot more potential to go off the rails - again, use your better judgement. "I like Plato" is probably all good, but "is abortion wrong" could get real thorny real quick. It's Griff's board so let's leave non-TF topics out of it for now until/unless he gives the all clear.