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Steven Lyle Jordan · 09-01-2010, 09:47 AM

Lately, I've become overwhelmed by the many ways of defining ethics... personal ethics, professional ethics, capitalist ethics, web ethics, sexual ethics, driving ethics, pet ethics, dating ethics, buying ethics, sharing ethics, remote-control-sharing ethics, double-dipping ethics, vampire ethics, and of course, whether Twizzlers have ethics, or if their multiple strands twisting together form an amalgam of society's efforts to force ethics and nonethics to bind together into a tasty treat for Secret Service agents...

Ethics has entered a practical vacuum and has become defined by itself, and as such, is capable of becoming itself, or becoming its opposite self, or becoming unbecoming, or just coming and going without anyone hearing, and so, did the ethics exist at all? It's become a pure abstraction that has no impact on the real world.

So, what's the story? Is it unethical to be unethical? Can it be unethical to be ethical? Can it be ethical to be unethical? Is it ethical to ask whether it's unethical? Is ethical to you not unethical to me? Is there an actual ethical in there anywhere? If loving you was unethical, would I want to be ethical? Can one unethical spoil the whole barrel of ethicals? Can two ethicals collide to make an unethical? Or do they cancel each other out in a big explosion and become Twizzlers? Does ethics actually exist in nature, or is it a purely human invention? If it is, when does the patent run out? If it doesn't run out... how is that ethical? Or is the fact that it is unethical the whole point?

What? No, this is only my third cup... anyone for more coffee? Or is it unethical to have more doughnuts without coffee?

(Is it ethical for me to start a thread like this just before I go off on vacation?)

09-01-2010, 09:47 AM	#1
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Is it unethical to be unethical? Lately, I've become overwhelmed by the many ways of defining ethics... personal ethics, professional ethics, capitalist ethics, web ethics, sexual ethics, driving ethics, pet ethics, dating ethics, buying ethics, sharing ethics, remote-control-sharing ethics, double-dipping ethics, vampire ethics, and of course, whether Twizzlers have ethics, or if their multiple strands twisting together form an amalgam of society's efforts to force ethics and nonethics to bind together into a tasty treat for Secret Service agents... Ethics has entered a practical vacuum and has become defined by itself, and as such, is capable of becoming itself, or becoming its opposite self, or becoming unbecoming, or just coming and going without anyone hearing, and so, did the ethics exist at all? It's become a pure abstraction that has no impact on the real world. So, what's the story? Is it unethical to be unethical? Can it be unethical to be ethical? Can it be ethical to be unethical? Is it ethical to ask whether it's unethical? Is ethical to you not unethical to me? Is there an actual ethical in there anywhere? If loving you was unethical, would I want to be ethical? Can one unethical spoil the whole barrel of ethicals? Can two ethicals collide to make an unethical? Or do they cancel each other out in a big explosion and become Twizzlers? Does ethics actually exist in nature, or is it a purely human invention? If it is, when does the patent run out? If it doesn't run out... how is that ethical? Or is the fact that it is unethical the whole point? What? No, this is only my third cup... anyone for more coffee? Or is it unethical to have more doughnuts without coffee? (Is it ethical for me to start a thread like this just before I go off on vacation?)