One of my favorite Arthur C. Clarke short stories. Thank you very much for uploading this.
@davidfleming78878 ай бұрын
A true classic I’ve never forgotten since I last read years ago
@DavidLS18 ай бұрын
I've recommended this story many times to young readers whose minds have been made up for them by religious parents. I like to believe that it made them think for themselves, even just a little.
@joaoypsilon9 ай бұрын
Magistral!
@indricotherium48028 ай бұрын
Has such a short story ever covered so much ground?
@wideawake56302 жыл бұрын
Amazing. Still my faith stands.
@gryffinsyme635711 ай бұрын
so how do you reconcile the existence of evil, genuinely curious, I've never heard a satisfying explanation but I would rather work my ass off to understand than just believe that the whole idea of theodicy is a millennia-long cope
@davidlong17869 ай бұрын
Free will. No life form is a robot, no matter how large or small, intelligent or simple. Everything and everyone has a choice and that gift was freely given to all.@@gryffinsyme6357
@Hatasumi699 ай бұрын
@@gryffinsyme6357There isn't one, this person won't have an answer because they're just staring into a blindspot for the sake of existential comfort. I don't say this in derision, just as a matter for fact after having a similar conversation with my father yesterday. He still thinks all evil is necessary and that people have true choice while ignoring social and biological factors that control expression of choice. He believes all this while attempting to excuse a truly omnipotent god from either fully embodying evil or at the very least knowingly condoning its expression to test humans, even though it already knows the choices we will make before it makes us. He's studied theology and philosophy and it's completely depressing sometimes to see him trapped in a mental box and lashing out at others defensively when someone merely doubts the logic at play. It's an emotional impulse to believe that overrides the intellectual faculties.
@HappyDuck-ev8nt8 ай бұрын
Cold is the absence of heat cold doesn't exist in and of itself. Dark is the absence of light it doesn't exist in and of itself. Evil is the absence of good. This an explanation I was once offered.
@Donleecartoons3 ай бұрын
Evil isn't just the absence of anything. It's active.