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Day 8 or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Jun 25, 2007 13:41

So I've been going back and re-reading old journal entries. As it turns out, the last time I tried to quit smoking ciggs was in 2004. I cracked on Day 8, and ended up smoking with Craig Fager and Beth Wymer whilst imbibing untold onces of alcohol. Well, I am back at that ominous marker. Today is my 8th day without a ciggarette. ( Read more... )

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hp June 26 2007, 19:00:46 UTC

If you were in a submarine with your friends, how can you close the hatch on them? They are already inside.

amazingtomatoes June 25 2007, 23:33:22 UTC

1st paragraph: oh, good for you?

2nd paragraph: can I not go two weeks without hearing about people i know raping babies? >:O
also, he should rape the babies. duh. i'm not a damn deontologist.

hp June 26 2007, 19:04:32 UTC

Of course you cannot go two weeks without hearing that schtick. You have cursed yourself through proximity with philosophy majors. Poor sucker.

_no_difference June 26 2007, 04:59:33 UTC

Every time you have the urge to bum a cigarette or buy a pack you should put the money you WOULD have spent on cigs into a jar or something. At the end of the month, you should give that 50 bucks to me, for the suggestion. July is approaching ( ... )

The Answer Cometh hp June 26 2007, 19:15:58 UTC

One of the possible consequences of non-cooperation when presented with the rigid "consequentialism v deontology" dichotomy is to simply remain agnostic about the whole thing, which is what I usually do with these kinds of matters. The alien abduction scenerio is designed to gauge the reader's intuitions, which, given the structure of the thought experiment, will come out as either consequentialist or deontological. The experiment does not tell us anything to help decide which ethical theory is the correct one, or if either one even is. All it does is make clear our intuitions (which are often misleading). So it is perfectly possible for me to take the consequentialist route with the experiment while remaining agnostic when it comes to the debate proper.