I don’t quite get the last couple of sentences in the post:
Unfortunately the universe doesn’t agree with me. We’ll see which one of us is still standing when this is over.
Here is the preceding paragraph:
I don’t think that when someone makes a stupid choice and dies, this is a cause for celebration. I count it as a tragedy. It is not always helping people, to save them from the consequences of their own actions; but I draw a moral line at capital punishment. If you’re dead, you can’t learn from your mistakes.
Are these the claims about which the universe disagrees with him? If so, what is the sense in which he attributes the negations of these claims to “the universe”?
ETA: Perhaps he means that, contrary to his own beliefs, the universe “thinks” that people “should” die when they make certain kinds of mistakes in the sense that people do in fact die when they make certain kinds of mistakes.
ETA: Perhaps he means that, contrary to his own beliefs, the universe “thinks” that people “should” die when they make certain kinds of mistakes in the sense that people do in fact die when they make certain kinds of mistakes.
ETA:Perhaps he means that, contrary to his own beliefs, the universe “thinks” that people “should” die when they make certain kinds of mistakes in the sense that people do in fact die when they make certain kinds of mistakes.
I don’t quite get the last couple of sentences in the post:
Here is the preceding paragraph:
Are these the claims about which the universe disagrees with him? If so, what is the sense in which he attributes the negations of these claims to “the universe”?
ETA: Perhaps he means that, contrary to his own beliefs, the universe “thinks” that people “should” die when they make certain kinds of mistakes in the sense that people do in fact die when they make certain kinds of mistakes.
This was my interpretation.
Agreed.
That, and that he wants to change that situation.