| The End |
[Feb. 12th, 2009|10:53 pm] |
This blog is closing down for good. However, I will still be found in many cyberspace locations.
I blog over at the Distributed Republic, the world's best amateur libertarian group blog. There exist better libertarian blogs, but they are all affiliated with some real-world institution and the authors are paid. The main web page is here and my personal section of the site is here. I have been told recently that the proprietors were interested in bringing me on as a permanent member. I am not sure what that entails, but I think it means that you may see more of my writing on the main page in the future.
I have a professional blog, but I haven't updated yet. It can be found here. You might want to bookmark it.
I will be starting a new personal blog as well. However, it will not be a replacement for this blog. It will be about the events in my life, but not about my inner thoughts and concerns. I will update this blog one last time when I have decided where to put it.
A man of 26 has no need to share his private thoughts with the world. The need to bare my soul, to reach out to someone, to fill a void in my heart caused by a deficit of human contact - no longer exists. It was an immature impulse for my immature years. I am not embarrassed by it per se, as I am not embarrassed that I wet the bed when I was 4 years old. However, it is simply time to move on.
I am keeping a facebook profile for the time being.
Once I get around to it, all previous posts and comments on this blog will be set to "private" and archived, permanently. I don't want people to get a poor picture of me as an adult due to my immodesty as an adolescent. |
|
|
| Have you had your mind blown today? |
[Feb. 2nd, 2009|12:09 am] |
Eliezer's superb story of the baby-eating aliens nicely illustrates some shortcomings of moral theory.
I am not a big fan of abstract moralities, and I am not impressed by the ethical dilemmas that their supporters and detractors produce. There are no universal solutions to these situations because they are in fact dilemmas, they involve trade-offs between two objects of high value (for example, someone constructs a situation where you have to kill a child or a village full of people will die). The best that any person caught in such a macabre situation could hope to do is to do what they feel is best.
Moralities belong in the class of invented abstractions which do not perfectly fit the real world. They are all a bit arbitrary.
The Christians have long understood the limitations of morality; they attempt to refer to a being outside the system to resolve the arbitrariness.
I come preaching not solutions, but limitations. The gospel of complexity. We must keep our rough edges to fit the rough world. |
|
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
prrometheus's journal