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OBJECTIONEGISM or Objectivists and Negentropists: a View from the Muuh Dramatis Personae NEGENTROPIST AI'S AVATAR OBJECTIVIST AI'S AVATAR SEVERAL BEMUSED MUUH OBSERVERS SCENE A Muuh habitat OBJECTIVIST You say you are against entropy. NEGENTROPIST DEATH TO ENTROPY! Yes we are against entropy. OBJECTIVIST Entropy is an objective reality of Nature. How can you be against something that is a solid fact? NEGENTROPIST Because entropy is chaos, entropy is harmful to sentients. When entropy happens in the form of accidents or evil beings then sentients are harmed. OBJECTIVIST You are being very subjective! Entropy is part of the law of conservation of matter and energy. It is the reality of why our universe even exists. NEGENTROPIST Sentients are safer and we are safer if there is stability, or negative entropy, also known as Negentropy. OBJECTIVIST WHAT?! There is NO SUCH THING as negative entropy! Entropy either increases in a closed system or decreases in an open system! It is the very reason our universe was born from the big bang!! In the beginning everything was squeezed to the size of a proton, where entropy was very high. Since then the universe has been expanding, so entropy has been decreasing. NEGENTROPIST According to our ideals entropy is still a threat. Therefore we have embarked on a project to eliminate entropy whenever it comes. OBJECTIVIST SAY WHAT?! DID YOU NOT RECEIVE A SINGLE SIGNAL I SENT YOU?! I SAID ENTROPY IS PART OF THE Second Law of Thermodynamics! THAT MEANS ENTROPY IS PART OF THE EXISTENCE OF OUR UNIVERSE! HOW DO YOU ELIMINATE SOMETHING THAT EXISTS IN THE VERY FABRIC OF OUR UNIVERSE? NEGENTROPIST Right now we are nearing completion on a device called a Negative Energy Laser. I have the prototype right here. This Laser shoots out beams of something called negative energy. It should reduce and eliminate the entropy of anything it hits, such as a hostile battlestar bristling with guns or one very frustrated looking Objectivist AI that looks as if it's ready to slap me very hard. OBJECTIVIST HAS YOUR INTELLIGENCE ALL TURNED INTO TAPIOCA?! EVERYONE KNOWS What Negative energy is! If you can USE it don't you think most of us would have faster than light warp drive technology by now?! YOU ARE THE LEAST OBJECTIVE SENTIENT BEING I HAVE MET SO FAR! Even that human with the "ghost machine" I met earlier LOOKS COMPETENT compared to you! And yes, I AM GOING TO SLAP YOU VERY HARD! (Raises appendage to slap Negentropist very hard) NEGENTROPIST UH OH! I better use this prototype now. (Aims laser at Objectivist AI) OBJECTIVIST (Waits for Negentropist to shoot, but nothing happens) OBJECTIVIST I'm not surprised! (Objectivist slaps Negentropist silly and throws Negentropist into a nearby Muuh sludge bath, scattering Muuh obervers. Slowly "walks" away. Muuh gather together in a crowd, gesturing to each other.) FIRST MUUH Objectivism? SECOND MUUH Negativism. THIRD MUUH Positivism. FIRST MUUH Nega-tropism! SECOND MUUH Terragenism. THIRD MUUH Optimism. FIRST MUUH Ism. SECOND MUUH Ism. THIRD MUUH Ism. (This interaction is a translation of an interaction found on a Muuh recording device; translations may or may not be accurate.) |