The things I learned while at Northwestern University
As someone who will likely spend the rest of their lives writing and teaching ethics in the university setting, I was greatly excited by the information received tonight while standing in line behind a fellow student and future world leader.
NOTICE: Apparently there is an ethical code for conducting oneself while dating both brothers in a set of twins.
This is good news. One of professors has often reminded me that pacifists are the most dangerous people around, because they will eventually become engaged in conflict and they will not have a well-developed since of what is just behavior when in war.
Now, if this is true, then I am glad to know that someone who is dating two brothers has a sense of what is proper etiquette in this situation. Otherwise anything might be considered appropriate behavior.
So in case anyone was wondering: "Sh*t, if you break up with one twin, you got to break up with both twins. You just gotta be like, 'you f*ckers live together and sh*t.' I can't be screwin' one twin while the other is in the living room watchin' TV bein' all pissed cause I broke up with him."
So there you have it. If you are going to start dating both twins together, then you must break up with both twins together.
Now, I must admit that this seems like a casuistic ethical system. (If you don't know what that means, then just look up "casuistry" in Wikipedia.) I hold to theological ethics and I am not sure that this woman's maxim can hold true for a Christian theological ethics. I will have to think more about it. I am not even sure Kant's deontological ethical system would even be able to conquer this difficult moral terrain.
This is still work to do...but at least people who are dating two brother's have some sort of code to guide their behavior in the mean time.
Jeremiah
NOTICE: Apparently there is an ethical code for conducting oneself while dating both brothers in a set of twins.
This is good news. One of professors has often reminded me that pacifists are the most dangerous people around, because they will eventually become engaged in conflict and they will not have a well-developed since of what is just behavior when in war.
Now, if this is true, then I am glad to know that someone who is dating two brothers has a sense of what is proper etiquette in this situation. Otherwise anything might be considered appropriate behavior.
So in case anyone was wondering: "Sh*t, if you break up with one twin, you got to break up with both twins. You just gotta be like, 'you f*ckers live together and sh*t.' I can't be screwin' one twin while the other is in the living room watchin' TV bein' all pissed cause I broke up with him."
So there you have it. If you are going to start dating both twins together, then you must break up with both twins together.
Now, I must admit that this seems like a casuistic ethical system. (If you don't know what that means, then just look up "casuistry" in Wikipedia.) I hold to theological ethics and I am not sure that this woman's maxim can hold true for a Christian theological ethics. I will have to think more about it. I am not even sure Kant's deontological ethical system would even be able to conquer this difficult moral terrain.
This is still work to do...but at least people who are dating two brother's have some sort of code to guide their behavior in the mean time.
Jeremiah