Are you justified in taking life to save life?

Over the past couple of days I've realised the full greatness of Dream Theater's "The Great Debate". In general I find their music takes a while to get in to as sometimes it's more about showing off than the musical coherence, but it eventually clicks somehow and is suddenly fantastic. It still seems that fourteen minutes is a bit overlong for its content, but a lot of that running time is taken up by the buildup at the start and finish where voice samples from interviews about stem cell research are placed over the music - the religious side and the scientific side.

Turn to the light
Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates
Turn to the light
Turning away would be a terrible mistake

Those lines are wonderfully ambiguous. It could mean the religious "light", and not to be afraid of what we're missing out on because of stopping the research. On the other hand it could mean the "light" of knowledge, and to not worry about the moral questions that it raises. Well, I analysed that horribly, but you get the idea. It's also one of those songs that have a very unlikely title that somehow works, much like Iron Savior's "Made of Metal" or Kamelot's "A Feast for the Vain".

Speaking of clever ambiguity, we watched Terminator 2 (thanks to Don) last night, correcting the fact that and hadn't seen it before. You don't get more cleverly ambiguous than the first half an hour of that film, when it leads you to believe that the roles of the two Terminators are reversed.

Edit: I've just realised that that last sentence contains a fairly major spoiler for the film, so I'd better put a warning. So here it is: This entry contains Terminator 2 spoilers.

Also, OpenTTD works over the network - it's fantastic.