Waltz and Dukat

[DevilEyes]

Same reason people think God is good, even after all the stuff God does in the Old Testament.

Not me, I always thought he was a jerk.

 

[Anwar]

Eh, the fact that we're still here makes me think that God is stern (VERY stern) but ultimately loving.

 

[DevilEyes]

Eh, the fact that we're still here makes me think that God is stern (VERY stern) but ultimately loving.

Yeah, he could have killed us all, and he did not - isn't he wonderful?


(Hey, this is kinda starting to sound like Dukat's arguments why Bajorans should be grateful to him... )

 

[Anwar]

And God regularly chose Prophets for us to voice our concerns to and the like, and chose humans to reign as rulers and the like (until their own human failings ruined them).

Plus, God has the added justification that we are God's creation and thus the "God hasn't killed us all yet" thing holds more water. When Dukat is revealed to have created the Bajorans THEN he can make that claim.

 

[DevilEyes]

And God regularly chose Prophets for us to voice our concerns to and the like, and chose humans to reign as rulers and the like (until their own human failings ruined them).

Plus, God has the added justification that we are God's creation and thus the "God hasn't killed us all yet" thing holds more water. When Dukat is revealed to have created the Bajorans THEN he can make that claim.

So, if you're a scientist and you create a bunch of sentient clones, you have the right to kill them any time you feel like it?

 

[Anwar]

If they violate the laws I set for them and have, in totality, become remorseless bastards each one out for themselves to the point they ruin their natural habitat (which I created for them and for other organisms I made) for personal gain and wage continuous wars against one another for trivial reason?

Yes, yes I do.

 

[DevilEyes]

If they violate the laws I set for them and have, in totality, become remorseless bastards each one out for themselves to the point they ruin their natural habitat (which I created for them and for other organisms I made) for personal gain and wage continuous wars against one another for trivial reason?

Yes, yes I do.

Or, if they simply do something they pisses you off. (see: Old Testament)

 

[PSGarak]

If they violate the laws I set for them and have, in totality, become remorseless bastards each one out for themselves to the point they ruin their natural habitat (which I created for them and for other organisms I made) for personal gain and wage continuous wars against one another for trivial reason?

Yes, yes I do.

Or, if they simply do something they pisses you off. (see: Old Testament)

Or if they're actually completely and totally faithful to you and have never done anything wrong in your eyes. Why then, you can even use them as a pawn in a bet with your petty adversary, allowing him to take everything from them, their possessions, their family, even their health. Of course, you swoop in and make it all ok in the end by giving them more possessions and a new wife and kids, because as we all know, wives and kids are completely interchangeable, like Leggos.

Reference: OT, story of Job.

I'll pass on that god. Thanks just the same.

 

[Anwar]

Actually, that story pretty much says that Job would go to Heaven and all his family had already been taken there so he'd see them again too. So he lives great for the rest of his day and after that he gets to see his lost family again.