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1 Post author: hankx7787 05 July 2012 05:04PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 July 2012 05:33:55AM -1 points [-]

The capability to be scientifically investigated is entirely divorced from the existence or discoverability of the thing scientifically investigated. We can devote billions of years and dollars in searching for things that do not and never did and never will exist. If investigation guaranteed existence, I'd investigate a winning lottery ticket in my wallet twice a day.

"Might is Right" is a morality in which there is no distinction between is and ought.