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- From: vdijk@io.tudelft.nl
- Subject: Re: Ethics...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.113132.1@io.tudelft.nl>
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- References: <1993Jan23.084954.12050@fuug.fi> <1993Jan23.232911.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>,<1993Jan26.201953.22346@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1993Jan26.211523.12775@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:31:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.211523.12775@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, st891487@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Schwartzberg, Queen of Spades) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan26.201953.22346@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, dwells@lonestar.utsa.edu (Darren . Wells) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan23.232911.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
- >> cvadrgez@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
- >>>Is it ethical to one day just stop talking to a friend (permanently), and to
- >>>NEVER even try to explain why?
- >>> [...]
- > The answer is NO. If somebody does this to you kick up a ruckus.
- > [...]
- > Are there any opposing viewpoints? Does anybody care?
- >
- > -Schwartzberg
-
- It might be an enlightening exercise to image why you would ever do such a
- thing yourself - and if you could justify it. (Me,) Myself, I can think
- of several reasons:
-
- 1) The former friend has made me inexplicably angry, and I know that
- restraining myself from pounding would cause me to splutter and stutter
- instead of fluently explaining why I am mad.
- 2) The former friend has made me dead tired by failing to understand
- repeated explanations. However, I normally would tell hir to avoid the
- subjects that we cannot agree upon.
- 3) The friend turns me on in the extreme, but has a happy relation that
- I do not want to disturb. Since I would not want to embarrass hir by
- excessive drooling whenever we meet, I might avoid hir. Again, I would
- normally explain this situation anyhow - but that depends how serious
- I am about not disturbing this friend's other relations.
-
- I do care a lot about these things, having an oversized sense of duty.
- However, some situations can trap you. As a philosophy prof. once pointed
- out to me: it is impossible to live without getting dirty hands (conf. Sartre).
-
- Casper
-
- Casper G.C. van Dijk "Broken words,
- Delft University of Technology never meant to be spoken"
- the Netherlands Bob Dylan
-