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Tookie Williams scheduled to die at 12:01 tonight.
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schwarzenegger denied clemency. of course he did; to have done otherwise would have been political suicide for him.
i wonder if the cities will burn as los angeles did in 1992.
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why girls are better than boys, and a comment on the system.
this began as a comment to altzen's post. i thought i'd expand on it a bit and see if there are any opinions on the matter ( Read more... ) -
choice and human nature
this was a comment i left in my friend d2leddy's journal, in response to a comment of one of his other friends. if you like intellectually stimulating, do check out his journal. he regularly has good discussions ( Read more... ) -
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Outside the academic establishment, the “far-reaching change in all our habits of thought” is serious. It serves to coordinate ideas and goals with those exacted by the prevailing system, to enclose them in the system, and to repel those which are irreconcilable with the system. The reign of such a one-dimensional reality does not mean that ( Read more... ) -
Adieu, adieu. Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Well, it's been a peach. However, school and other real life goings-on have finally restricted the time I am able to devote to the internet. As a result, the time I spend on rating communities is going to have to be forfeited.
Please don't add me because you're going to "miss me". I don't have time to get to know you.
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Kantian Ethics?
During the last twenty-five years of his life, Immanuel Kant's philosophical work placed him firmly in the company of such towering giants as Plato and Aristotle. The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals was published in 1785, just before the Critique of Practical Reason. It is essentially a short introduction to the argument presented in the ( Read more... ) -
Discussion Topic
This entry discusses the Land Ethic set forth by Aldo Leopold in his book A Sand County AlmanacDoes the Earth exist for the benefit of humanity? Do humans have any ethical obligations with respect to the natural world? Have we the right to take all the Earth's resources for our own use? Do we have a responsibility to be good stewards over the ( Read more... ) -
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