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9/17/2010 9:12:16 PM Posted: 7 years ago ... you lacked the principles you currently have? Basically, if you didn't live by philosophy X, what kind of person would you be? Example: supposing I wasn't an Objectivist, I think that my metaphysics would remain the same - maybe epistemology. I'd be an ethical nihilist, I wouldn't give a damn about politics, and esthetics... Well, I've never liked that anyway.
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9/17/2010 9:19:07 PM Posted: 7 years ago I'd be a nihilistic prostitute. I'd also kill small children because I hate them and they annoy me. Not sure if thats what you meant, but thats how I would be if I didn't hold my truths and morality. I also would have killed my mom, stepdad, and a whole school of people a couple years back.
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9/17/2010 9:30:17 PM Posted: 7 years ago At 9/17/2010 9:19:07 PM, lovelife wrote: Hmm, so why don't you? I have yet to hear you justify your ethical views. |
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9/17/2010 9:42:53 PM Posted: 7 years ago At 9/17/2010 9:12:16 PM, Cody_Franklin wrote: uh... lost? i can't say any alternatives make much sense to me lol.... if they did i would probably hold different principles :P evidently i only come to ddo to avoid doing homework... |
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9/17/2010 9:47:27 PM Posted: 7 years ago At 9/17/2010 9:30:17 PM, J.Kenyon wrote:At 9/17/2010 9:19:07 PM, lovelife wrote: Just the way I veiw life and feel. I'm not sure what brought the change, but that was exactly me 2 years ago. Without Royal there is a hole inside of me, I have no choice but to leave |
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9/17/2010 9:49:58 PM Posted: 7 years ago Might be that I realized that although there is no objective point infe, you only get one and best make the most of it. The rest comes from trying to make the most of it.
At that point I figured if I grew up I'd have likee to be a hitman. Without Royal there is a hole inside of me, I have no choice but to leave |
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9/17/2010 9:50:04 PM Posted: 7 years ago At 9/17/2010 9:42:53 PM, belle wrote:This.At 9/17/2010 9:12:16 PM, Cody_Franklin wrote: If I lacked the principles I currently have... If major willpower is a principle, I'd be six feet under w/o it. And if suicide was not an option, I'd be in a mental hospital. I miss the old members. |
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9/18/2010 1:29:46 AM Posted: 7 years ago I couldn't answer this question with any accuracy, because I am who I am because of the principals I currently adhere to. If I didn't have them I would have some other, Let's call it X, set of principals that would dictate my person. X principals could be any other than those I currently have and they would dictate my person.
I don't really understand the motivation for the question, or the point of asking it. When large numbers of otherwise-law abiding people break specific laws en masse, it's usually a fault that lies with the law. - Unknown |
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9/18/2010 2:06:18 AM Posted: 7 years ago At 9/18/2010 1:29:46 AM, Korashk wrote: Precisely. |
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9/18/2010 2:14:06 AM Posted: 7 years ago At 9/17/2010 9:42:53 PM, belle wrote:At 9/17/2010 9:12:16 PM, Cody_Franklin wrote: Kind of like Belle. There's been a lot of trial and tremendously huge errors that have shaped my current way of being. I tossed out stuff that might have been fun, but long term really damaging. Like what atheism said, i would be most likely not alive if i didn't straighten up my act (so to speak) and re-evaluate my priorities and values. |
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9/18/2010 2:18:38 AM Posted: 7 years ago At 9/17/2010 9:12:16 PM, Cody_Franklin wrote: If I lacked my current principles, I would be subservient to authority, I would live an inhibited life, I would lack any care for philosophy, and would probably live in fear. "We must raise the standard of the Old, free, decentralized, and strictly limited Republic." -- Murray Rothbard "The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended." -- Frederic Bastiat |
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9/18/2010 4:39:17 AM Posted: 7 years ago i'd say i could possibly have been a bazillionaire.
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9/18/2010 7:47:41 AM Posted: 7 years ago I don't have academic ethical position, though I do have a strong sense of what is right and wrong. By my own standards I am pretty moral, if it were not for that I'd probably be a success.
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9/18/2010 7:54:15 AM Posted: 7 years ago At 9/18/2010 2:18:38 AM, GeoLaureate8 wrote: So, no difference? Pizza. I have enormous respect for Pizza. |
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9/18/2010 7:57:17 AM Posted: 7 years ago At 9/18/2010 7:54:15 AM, I-am-a-panda wrote:At 9/18/2010 2:18:38 AM, GeoLaureate8 wrote: arsey. but i lol'd evidently i only come to ddo to avoid doing homework... |
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9/18/2010 8:30:43 AM Posted: 7 years ago At 9/18/2010 7:47:41 AM, Cerebral_Narcissist wrote: Such a misunderstood word. |