Thursday, January 13, 2005

This site is the third search result on Google for 'Jennifer ellison boob job' (sans quotes, a referral I keep getting).

I am ambivalent (sorry, no pictures of her breasts before she got them enhanced).

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Moral skepticism

"In meta-ethics, moral skepticism is a theory which maintains either that ethical claims are generally false, or else that we cannot sufficiently justify any ethical claims, and must therefore maintain doubt about whether they are true or false.

For example, the claims "it is wrong to kill" and "it is acceptable to kill" are both false, according to the first version of moral skepticism. The moral skeptic says that this is because ethical claims implicitly pre-suppose the existence of objective values, and that these do not exist.

Such a position is exemplified in J. L. Mackie's book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Mackie's main argument against the existence of objective values is the argument from queerness - objective values would be very queer things indeed, very different from everything else in the world - indeed, they would have to be something like the Platonic forms (which Mackie considers a "wild product of philosophical fancy"). Furthermore, how we are supposed to discover these objective values is mysterious.

The moral skeptic's conclusion is that objective values are merely useful fictions for the preservation of society."

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Current hair status:

Fringe: When pulled down, some parts go just past the bottom of my nose. When pulled back, the strands are about 1cm from the top tip of my ear.
Side: It goes maybe 2-3cm past the end of my earlobe
Back: At its longest, the hair at the back now touches my collar, so when I move my head my hair tends to get tousled. This doesn't mean that the hair is very long, just that I have a short neck. Pity.

I was thinking of how I could keep the hair at the back in order. It's long enough to be formed into a tuft and pinned or tied, but that would look hideous even by my standards, so (apparently some people possess the secret lore of how to clip presentably, but I know not any of them).

Ah well. At least I can now bunch the hair at the back up into a small tuft with one hand and run my other hand through it. Daily conditioning has paid off.