Kill you.

Feb 05, 2004 01:12

Embrace your destruction.

A few confessions I have to make:

I would kill a cop.
I would burn down a church.
I would steal from a hospital.
I would cheat on someone.
I would bomb a country.
I would take advantage of someone drunk and passed out.

But the one thing I never thought I would do... well, I did it tonight.

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jwilman February 7 2004, 05:39:04 UTC
confessions refer to disclosures of one's actions, primarily sins, in the hopes of absolution. apropos, sins are given weight based on the ends with little to no consideration of the means.

without the "why", equations of morality result in little more than zero-sum scenarios.

condordantly, your confessions offer no grounds for judgement. the decisions you make are ultimately only as important as the reasoning therein.

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social_aversion February 7 2004, 12:40:50 UTC
Are you suggesting that I haven't done the things on that list?

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jwilman February 10 2004, 00:53:57 UTC
no i'm not. what i am saying is that the reasons behind the actions are oftentimes more important than the actions themselves.

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social_aversion February 10 2004, 06:56:33 UTC
Mens Rea vs. Actus Reus

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jwilman February 11 2004, 05:53:37 UTC
not at all. the predilection here is not so much to justify as it is to explain.

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jwilman February 10 2004, 00:54:42 UTC
(the end rarely jusftifies the means, but the means often justifies the ends, so to speak)

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