22.3.10

Ethics are all well and good, but bake me a cake first

Know until you are compelled to act, but always know first. That's how I roll.

Objective and subjective are ideals; never attained.
Leaning to the objective puts you in line with the common universe and its limitations.
Leaning to the subjective allows you access to your own universe. If that is all you want, I encourage you to visit as often as you like.

If you visit the common universe however, unaware of its limitations you may find yourself unable to communicate with other people. The funny sounds coming out of your mouth and the symbols you may scratch on a page will mean little to those around you.

I use my subjective to form possible universes that please me.
I use my objective to test those forms and create those that fit in the common universe.

Sarah thinks issues of ethics are surprisingly simple: “you make a decision and that's just ew, gross.”

Understanding does not elude us, we experience its grasp on our consciousness every day.

Objectivity is found by embracing its grasp, and holding it as it holds us.

Genetics cause predispositions, conditioning governs behaviour.

An intoxicated person uses the same brain as a sober person. The same axons fire, the same decision trees exist.

An intoxicated person clouds their senses but not their perceptions.

Our senses are the things we block out; we ignore more than we ever perceive.

Take a decision, any choice that can be made.

Choose one close to you, one you wish you could relive and rechoose.

Now, relive it in your own universe. Knowing and feeling only what you did then, can you make a different choice? Do you find you need to change choices you made before that to change the outcome?

Do those choices have dependant choices?

Time travel is possible. In all directions.

But which path do you choose?

And why?

Peace is no alternative to war, only a failure to disagree.

Someone killed Gandhi. Gandhi didn't kill anyone.

What breeds a peaceful human, knowledge and power, strength and identity?

Ambition?

Perhaps.

Ignorance and happiness, selfishness, focusing on ones full belly instead of another's hill of beans.

Rationality and logic are violent to lies. Belief removes objectivity.

What good does instant communication do, when you are not sure what to say?

Or how to listen?

Give everyone an instant kill button, arm the world and we can hasten the end of this ill thought out experiment.



You are even more beautiful l than in my dreams. Mainly because in my dreams you have three heads that are all screaming.

What I'm trying to say is, I love you.

You're not doing a good job of it.

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It is a chocolate cake by the way.

1 comment:

  1. Nice. A wonderful exploration of the concepts involved and the benefits of the competing viewpoints.

    I see what you mean about the value and beauty of subjectivity - we had a similar debate in uni on Tuesday.

    I held against formidable opposition that dogs possess reasoning in the same way humans do. They argued that humans are alone in reflective reasoning. I argued reflective reasoning is just a more advanced degree of the same form of reasoning.

    I'm not entirely sure how this is relevant to your post.

    In other news I'm off to talk to the kids in my old high school tomorrow (my cackling didn't seem to tip the teacher off that this could be exploited). Also, I will never confuse Sydney and Brisbane again. I humbly beg redemption.

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