transparent and/or moral
It is today. It is today, 2009. You are reading this using a computer. You are right there reading. You have a keyboard.
How can you not write what you think? How can you not learn what somebody else thinks?
What holds you back? Are you worried someone will learn what you think?
What do you think?
I think you are probably a good person. See, that is part of me, right there where you can see it. I say it is a moral statement, because it is about whether you and I agree what is right. It is also about whether you may tend to do the right things, good things, where people have agreed some actions are "good."
I do not think you are like me. That is also moral. We are similar - genes, many thoughts, many feelings - but we disagree on certain issues. List all the hot buttons: racism, abortion, war, religion, the future, the past. We disagree somewhere. So what? If you do not write what you think, I will never know.
Though you are probably good, you may have done wrong things. Because you are everybody. That is what "everybody" means. I hope you know this word.
Though you are like me, you may not like me. That is different. Morals are not feelings. Morals are about your position: you are standing on a small hill, looking around at the fields, buildings, trees, birds. You see them but they don't see you. You see people, and they see you. What do you say to them? What comments do you make to yourself?
I am an invisible particle like yourself. We float on the surface of a ground, on a planet, near a star, far from a massive scary hole in space. Many holes in space have collected stars, and planets, and grounds.
What is moral is not the ground. It is you, and me, and people like us.
How can you not write what you think? How can you not learn what somebody else thinks?
What holds you back? Are you worried someone will learn what you think?
What do you think?
I think you are probably a good person. See, that is part of me, right there where you can see it. I say it is a moral statement, because it is about whether you and I agree what is right. It is also about whether you may tend to do the right things, good things, where people have agreed some actions are "good."
I do not think you are like me. That is also moral. We are similar - genes, many thoughts, many feelings - but we disagree on certain issues. List all the hot buttons: racism, abortion, war, religion, the future, the past. We disagree somewhere. So what? If you do not write what you think, I will never know.
Though you are probably good, you may have done wrong things. Because you are everybody. That is what "everybody" means. I hope you know this word.
Though you are like me, you may not like me. That is different. Morals are not feelings. Morals are about your position: you are standing on a small hill, looking around at the fields, buildings, trees, birds. You see them but they don't see you. You see people, and they see you. What do you say to them? What comments do you make to yourself?
I am an invisible particle like yourself. We float on the surface of a ground, on a planet, near a star, far from a massive scary hole in space. Many holes in space have collected stars, and planets, and grounds.
What is moral is not the ground. It is you, and me, and people like us.