Stupid, stupid ethics. (625 hits)
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Submitted by Jim Erickson <piperatthegat13.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-01-19 07:46:41 EST
"Malik: Mal2 once told me that pacifism was a dilemma. If everybody was a pacifist then everything would be perfect. But nobody is going to be a pacifist unless I am first. But if I am and somebody else is not, then I get screwed. He said that there were five choices under that circumstance. The first was napalming farmers and the second was executing your parents. The third was hypocrisy, the fourth was cowardice, and the fifth was to swallow the dilemma. Zenarchists are trained in dilemma swallowing. "
-The Principia Discordia
So there it is. Thats basically what keeps me in the "Getting Fucked" business again and again and again.
Now, I'm not a pacifist, mind you. But I find the above sentiment applicable in all manner of ethical and moral dilemmas. What the hell good is abiding by any kind of social morality if someone else is going to come along and not follow your example?
Lets have an example. You get on a bus. You go to sit down. And in the seat to the left of you, there's a money clip. Not a full wallet with any form of I.D., mind you. Just a money clip. With a big, fat, juicy wad of cash in it. No one is looking. The bus is empty. So what do you do? Do you leave it there, in the hopes that whoever lost it will carefully retrace there steps and find it? Or do you buy yourself a new PS2 game?
You leave it there, of course! Thats the good, ethical thing to do! (For the moment, we're going to discount the idea of giving it to the bus driver for safe keeping. Choose one of the following options: 1. This is a hypothetical situation meant to illustrate a common dilemma, and that specific solution isn't applicable to the problem as a whole. 2. The bus driver is a seedy fucker who'd buy lap dances from ugly strippers with it. )
So you've been a good human being. You didn't touch what didn't belong to you. You chose the morally correct path in an attempt to better someone else's life, or at least to minimalize the damage done to them. So what happens now?
The next fucking shmoe that sits in your seat pockets the cash. It dosent get back to it's origional owner. Now, instead of a noble deed, you've comitted a fruitless sacrifice, and Monster Rancher 3 will not be yours.
So, the next time you're facing a moral dilemma, ask yourself the question, "Am I avoiding sin to better humanity, or am I giving up an opportunity to get away with something gleefully illegal?"
Because, freinds, the money clip is gone. While I was sitting in a dark room with the monitor glow giving me face cancer, pondering the ethics of the situation, she went ahead and got herself a boyfreind.
God damnit.
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Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-01-19 10:29:42 EST (#)
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abortionrules,
YOU SUCK.
Submitted by abortionrules1 (user info) at 2004-01-19 09:58:45 EST (#)
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On the side, though. I think I'd prefer freshman pussy compared to older pussy. It's just...they're more innocent, virgin, and petite! Same applies for bumholes. Because they are at the age where they know how to wipe properly, so their boyfriends can lick their bumholes ALL NIGHT LONG.
Submitted by abortionrules1 (user info) at 2004-01-19 09:57:08 EST (#)
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Well, in your "My account", and your "profile", go to "External name" and that probably explains why. 20 year guy for 15 year old girl? DEFINITELY too old for her. I'm 18, but I want someone MY age. It is a maturity issue majorly, because if you've survived high school and got through it like I did, and go out with a high school chick, she's still being fucked with in high school, and that could mean the inevitable breakup because of peer influences. As for morals in general, I try and live a clean and decent life. I know that I won't be making MAJOR change to the world by doing it, but in a way I am. Take my friend for example. I went to school most of my life with him...well he's my ex-friend. A fuckup can be as simple as littering, or taking that money clip. It will lead to worse character traits. He now has an extensive criminal record. I think the mentality I'm explaining is: small crimes lead to big crimes. Because if you say, hey fuck it, let's toss this can! Life's shit, let's not give a fuck! Well, what's to stop that person from fucking up in their positions of power? For example, George W. Bush. He's a total fuckup, and it probably had roots in his childhood.
Submitted by CrumbleBum (user info) at 2004-01-19 09:36:38 EST (#)
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Alright, obviously, I'm new here. Why does it give my actual name for the post, and my handle for the comment?
Submitted by CrumbleBum (user info) at 2004-01-19 09:33:20 EST (#)
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Oh, just some fella I know. To be honest, he's a perfectly okay guy, and I can't really bear him any grudge or distaste for going after an opportunity that I shrunk back from. The basic moral dilemma was that she's young. Too young? Well thats the dilemma. Is 15 too young for 20? Questioning things like maturity and so on.
As for guilt, where the principle as a whole is concerned, I'd only really feel guilty if my abstainance from a crime of some kind could have lead to a greater good, and I went ahead and did it anyway. I wouldn't feel bad about flicking my cigarette onto the carpet of a building that was already burning. It's always a conundrum, and it drives a lot of people to become worse people. The mentality that "Everyone is doing it" is a hard one to avoid, because everyone IS fucking doing it.
I suppose the whole question or conundrum I'm raising here isn't totally and directly related to the actual situation that I refer to in the first section of this post, rather it sparked the line of thought.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2004-01-19 09:29:15 EST (#)
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Abortion Rules your ignorance is hilarious.
Submitted by abortionrules1 (user info) at 2004-01-19 09:12:10 EST (#)
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This was actually quite good, and it proves a point. But listen, just because someone will inevitably do it, doesn't mean you should start. Would you rather have malignant guilt over taking the money clip, or a clean soul? Also, who went off and got a boyfriend?