Buffy: So how'd she get away with the bad mojo stuff? Anya: Giles sold it to her. Giles: Well, I didn't know it was her. I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.

'Sleeper'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

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.


Topic!Cindy - Mar 30, 2006 8:17:06 am PST #7275 of 10001
What is even happening?

( continues...) successful society. An agnostic might say nearly the same thing, but might qualify it with some reasoning along the lines of: since the natural world is all we can know about, and that we can't know about the presence or absense of the supernatural...etc.

Moral judgments and world views aren't going to necessarily be predictive of each other to anyone other than the person that holds them. Different reasons and different rationalizations (and even different moral positions themselves) appeal to different people for any number of reasons.

We do know a number of deeds that are obviously good and obviously bad to most people, regardless of their individually held world views. But how a person looks at life, his relation to other inhabitants of the world, and the world itself--why and how both it and we are here (this is all 'world view'), ties into his view of right and wrong (and as billytea points out, vice versa)--that is, it is part of the reasoning that lies to his moral judgments.

Do most of us go through this process when we're making a moral judgment? No, at least not usually, seldom consciously, probably not in cases that seems cut and dried, like the general one I've provided above. I think the time a person would be most likely to do this (and then probably not too consciously), is when he has to render a moral judgment that somehow puts two or more of his principles in conflict with one another.

And I realize no one cares about this conversation any longer, which is the nature of Natter, but there we go.


Ailleann - Mar 30, 2006 8:36:33 am PST #7276 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

mmm... spicy Topic!Cindy!brain...


Theodosia - Mar 30, 2006 8:58:15 am PST #7277 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Mmmmm... I had delicately spiced lamb samosas for lunch with a tamarind sauce that was to die for. Seriously, I licked the spoon. Also it's in the 60s out so it was a nice walk, too.


Aims - Mar 30, 2006 9:02:35 am PST #7278 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I DON'T want to go to lunch with my boss and 2 other people in my office. We're going to El Cholo's and I just don't want to go.

Blah.


Gudanov - Mar 30, 2006 9:06:45 am PST #7279 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Thunder and lighting outside my office window. Cool.


Calli - Mar 30, 2006 9:14:09 am PST #7280 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Congrats, Jesse! I hope the response is the beginning of terrific things.


Trudy Booth - Mar 30, 2006 9:16:38 am PST #7281 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Is it ridiculous that I want to get Em and I matching pink Converse?

I read this as Corvettes. I thought it was a great idea.


Spidra Webster - Mar 30, 2006 9:18:04 am PST #7282 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Cashmere - Mar 30, 2006 9:25:07 am PST #7283 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

A friend of mine was on Komodo Island a few years ago on a photo shoot with a famous female photographer (who's a bit of a loon). The islanders wanted to attract a dragon for them to see so they needed some bait. The photographer eagerly offered up some of her used feminine hygiene products as bait. She called it her "contribution to the hunt." Um...eeeewwww.


sarameg - Mar 30, 2006 9:55:01 am PST #7284 of 10001

I'm in a korean food coma. And in denial that tomorrow is friend's official last day here.