Month: October 2010

Rules for Promises

I haven’t broken a promise in the past ten years. It’s very important to me. Probably more important than my life or other silly things. My moral outlook is somewhat inconsistent with this, but I find that I need to have a word of gold to make sense of my life. So I have these…

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Working at a center for ethics has its advantages.  (By the way, I work at a center for ethics now.) One of these advantages is the ability to work next to – and be on first name basis with– internationally renowned ethicists. I don’t usually think about ethics, but I used to be fairly interested…

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I helped bring you into this world, I can help take you out of it.

Here’s a memory: Before I start grad school, two of the people I know here ask if anybody wants to join them for a concert in two months. I respond ‘yes’ and ask them to buy me two tickets, as I plan to be involved with a sexy lady by then. ((“Foiled!”)) When that doesn’t…

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