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Archive for December, 2006

Death and Other Less Morbid Things

05 Dec
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.

 
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The Apple iPhone is Coming

03 Dec

This is pretty exciting…and how convenient, I’m due for a new cell phone.

From MacRumors.com:

“According to [Kevin] Rose, little bit of inside info on the Apple phone:

- Going to be coming out in January
- All phone providers
- ‘It’s small as sh*t’
- Don’t know anything about the Operating System
- The OS is supposed to be ‘cool’
- Doing some unique things
- Two batteries, one charger. One for MP3 portion and one for Phone.
- 4GB ($249) and 8GB ($449)
- Flash memory, Slide out keyboard
- Maybe touch screen?”

Sounds pretty cool if you ask me.

 
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DQs and iTunes

01 Dec

Two updates today: The first, I have put up all the DQs for Chapters 17-33 of the Alan Brinkley textbook used for the US History AP class. So, have at it. Don’t cheat!
Also, the iTunes Catalog has been updated once again.

I’m also planning on working on a new podcast episode (I always say this but it never happens) but stay tuned anyway.

 
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