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Name: whoareyouwhenyouared
Country: Canada
State: British Columbia
Metro: Vancouver
Gender: Female
Interests: the philosophy of unphilosophic things, stretching, pie, digressing, moss, hurdles, butter chicken, eating salad for dinner outside in the summer without utensils, music, singing, green tea, that before tipsy feeling when everything just seems peaceful, useless information, thai chicken pizza, mountains, photography, chai lattes, children's books, collages
Expertise: nothing practical, sticking my foot in my mouth
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
5/15/2003
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| Hello all. I highly doubt anyone who used to visit this site (however infrequently) is still there. And that's a wonderful thing in a way because it is so freeing. I hardly feel like the same person I was when I stopped keeping up with this thing. The whole tone of the site doesn't quite fit who I am any more - it still screams "angsty teen on the cusp of adulthood". Now I'm just a much less angsty adult trying to come to terms with what being an adult actually means.
Anywhooo....the real reason I'm back is because I was inspired by "We Feel Fine". If you don't know what that is I highly recommend you give it a google. I heard about it on the TED talks podcast which I've been listening to constantly on my way to and from work. | | |
| Spiders on crackThis link for anyone who saw my really old post on spiders that had been given various drugs. Please watch it all the way through; I'm promise that it's worth it.
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| We are all subsidizing Big AssesFor some reason I've been following a Canadian theme lately. And yes, this is fairly old but I just had to put it up 'cause it is so cute and rarely seen in parliment. I mean, has anyone seen Harper smile before?
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| "The best place on Earth"I'm considering writing a letter to the province of British Columbia imploring them to change our provincial motto.
It makes us sound like arrogant assholes and I hate it. Who are we to say we live in the best place on earth? What criterea are they using? Ugh! Every time I see it (which has been a lot lately - it seems to be posted everywhere and on EVERYTHING) I want to move somewhere else...anywhere with a shred of humility. If I was a tourist it would put me right off.
Obviously if I did write a letter I wouldn't word it like that. Perhaps I should recruit Kerry to write it for me. He's good at that stuff.
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| The Ethics of Speaking up in Ethics ClassYes, I've taken a rather long hiatus. I had hoped I'd out-grown this rather juvenile form of self-aggrandizement but sadly no (I'm also a little tipsy which could account for this post as well as it's somewhat convoluted language).
Anyways, I'm back mostly because my new Biomedical Ethics prof pisses me off. He is very opinionated...which is fine...except that he's promised to flunk anyone who disagrees with him...and I am one of those people. Or maybe I'm not. You see, it's hard to figure out because I'm far too terrified to actually go up and speak with him.
He seems to think that what is ethically right is preexisting, removed from humanity, objectively true. But this makes no sense to me. How can there be a value judgment without someone to make the value judgment? This doesn't mean that we are not obligated to act in certain ways regarding other people, we certainly are, but these obligations are biological, social, and emotional...not some sort of Platonic Form. There is no objective law implicating that Hitler was wrong and Churchill right. My prof says this opinion implies that might makes right, but no, I would hold that his view does. Just because ethics is a human construct doesn't mean I can't argue that my ethical construct isn't better than your ethical construct.
So, here in my ethics class, I am faced with an ethical choice. Do I shut my mouth, regurgitate what my prof says, and get a decent mark? Or do I query him and flunk?
Way back in grade 9 my English teacher tried to start a discussion about the nature of good and evil and I whispered that there was no such thing as evil. He jumped on this, asking if I would elaborate. But, out of embarrassment, I refused. I feel like I am right back in that classroom, but this time I have a voice. So, if I do make my case, how should I present it?
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