From: Madame Ubiquitous (eileen.krasowski@yale.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 01:46:24 MST
>I have no evidence that the Norn-torturer is a jerk. I think he just
>has a spectacularly warped sense of humor, combined with more
>willingness to adjust the moral instincts (to what is, in fact, the
>objective reality) than I'd want to essay without a good reason. I eat
>meat, and there is not much objective difference between eating meat,
>personally hacking off the heads of cows, and shooting baby squirrels
>from slingshots to knock down wasp nests. I just think that there are
>limits to how far we should go in the name of eliminating moral cowardice.
Point being that there *does* seem to be a subjective difference, and I'm
interested in why. Is there any utility in feeling squeemish at the
destruction of cute things? Or should we all go out with our machetes and
hack up puppies?
Eileen. Back to writing philosophy of language...best paper I've written
yet, even if it *is* being finished at 4am.
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