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Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 12:02 am
Today’s death class was quite entertaining:
1. We veered off the topic of abortion and were talking about that philosophical scenario with the lifeboat - that is, you’re in a plane and it crashes, and you are in a lifeboat, and you can only fit one other person in it with you. You see a 50 year old man and an infant - now, the question is, who do you pull in with you and therefore save? You have to ask, whose life has more promise or potential to do good? Most of the class of course said that they would save the infant, because the infant hasn’t lived as long as the 50 year old man, and would be more deprived of future goods in life it were to die then. So pretty much, the 50 year old man’s life is worth less and has less potential than does the infant’s life. One person mentions a problem with over-population in the world today later during the discussion, and JST suggests then that we may as well just round up all the 50 year olds and kill them by “putting them into a very large Cuisinart and (with relish) smash them up. Imagine the blades slicing through the bodies.” I had a good shock with that one.
2. Back to arguing about abortion, we were discussiong how if abortion is immoral and cannot be performed, then an unwanted child is born. JST suggests selling the babies on Ebay, and if no one bids high enough (once again, with relish), “they will get liquidized!” Further into the discussion, we for some reason were talking about the morality of cannibalism, and someone proclaimed that eating babies is immoral. JST simply asks, “Why?” We concluded that eating babies, if prepared and cooked properly, is morally sound.
3. We were discussing whether infanticide is morally right if the baby is either unwanted, suffers from a terrible mental disease, or simply causes much suffering by the parents or for itself. JST provides an example: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie give birth to a very ugly baby, (to their utter disbelief) and want to kill it, because they are superficial people and suffer greatly from the baby’s ugliness. The class immediately responds that this would be immoral. JST ups the ante by saying, “But what if they have a baby that looks like several monkeys glued together with a face like a shrimp?” Ah-hah. Now what?
This is the third update in recent times…why do I all of a sudden have so much to say? Who knows…maybe it’s the fact that it’s the end of the semester and I am becoming lazy, and have little desire to study…that has to change soon. Despite all this, things are looking up. Christmas is coming. I’ve discovered Fred Neil. Life isn’t all that bad really, I have to say.
Nicholas A. Pelullo (via Facebook) says:
necesse est tibi vivam habere.
lol. tu es n00b-us.
iocus est iocus est.
infantes? Seneces sunt meliores Senato Populoque Romano.
pax tecum Gallice!
-Graecus
December 6th, 2006 at 12:30 am
mike says:
question: when have you ever had any desire to study?
December 6th, 2006 at 12:08 pm