You know, before, when I was startled at the bank Chris Rock was making for Rush Hour 3? I take it back. I have no startle left over after learning that Jennifer Aniston makes $9M a picture.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2005 5:05:09 pm PST #8215 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Laura - Nov 30, 2005 5:06:26 pm PST #8216 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.
That is startle draining.
sumi - Nov 30, 2005 5:15:07 pm PST #8217 of 10006
Art Crawl!!!
Wow. Ummm, are her movies that successful?
On Invasion, was that deputy who was talking to the sherrif (why is it impossible for that word to look right?) - the same actor that played the soldier on Nip/Tuck this week?
DCJensen - Nov 30, 2005 5:42:12 pm PST #8218 of 10006
All is well that ends in pizza.
Hey, our replicators are here!
Huh. No one seeked interested in that story when I posted in Bitches last week. I should have quoted.
Jesse - Nov 30, 2005 5:44:57 pm PST #8219 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fuck fuck fuck. A roach was just on me!! I HATE THAT. I felt a little tickle on my arm, but I thought it was just the cat or something, but then I saw the roach on the sofa next to me, and EW. I womanfully grabbed a napkin and KILLED IT. Just ew, though.
Now I have to finish a paper but I'm all creeped out.
bon bon - Nov 30, 2005 5:58:43 pm PST #8220 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I actually think the former maxim is still endorseable
And impossible.
Not sure what you mean. When you do the categorical imperative calculation, which could be just one ethical standard, you imagine what if everyone followed the rule you're endorsing-- what are the consequences? I think if everyone followed the maxim
My personal ethics are in adopting the rules of the store/community/country when I cross over into it.
Then people would have no reason not to adopt completely unfair rules. I don't think the adoption of a rule by someone whose space you occupy is enough reason to find breaking it unethical. I don't think you are endorsing this, which leaves me a bit puzzled. I have plenty of non-ethical, self-interested reasons why I would follow the rules. But I think your rule crosses over into adopting everyone else's preferences into your ethics.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2005 6:02:58 pm PST #8221 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think your rule crosses over into adopting everyone else's preferences into your ethics.
Well, you didn't reprint the part where I say this works in some scenarios and not in others.
I think your rule crosses over into adopting everyone else's preferences into your ethics.
Assuming that it was 100% applied (which I have stated is not the case), it would cross over into me accepting other people's preferences when I'm in their domains, with no onus on me to be in everyone's domain and certainly not simultaneously.
bon bon - Nov 30, 2005 6:09:53 pm PST #8222 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The fact that the rule only works in some scenarios and not others is why I think it's not a good rule. And why following that rule is therefore not a matter of ethics.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2005 6:12:10 pm PST #8223 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I never called it a rule. It's also a bad poem. So what?
bon bon - Nov 30, 2005 6:26:32 pm PST #8224 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
My personal ethics are in adopting the rules of the store/community/country when I cross over into it.
Why wouldn't this be a rule, though? If it's a principle that only works sometimes, I feel like it's not a good principle.
This is making my head hurt. You should tell me to stop if it makes yours hurt, too. I feel bad for arguing with you on the day of your MRI.
Edited to fix quote.