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Reformed Loser

 

11 December 2006

I've got another idea for an Audacity project that just might knock your hat in the creek. I began working on it tonight, but I think I'll need more alcohol to complete it. For now instead, I'll share something I thought about the other day.
When I was very young, I didn't think about it. As I got older, I did, and I believed in Right and Wrong. As my observations on the matter became more deliberate, and my thinking a little more complex, I began to think of Black and White more as Shades of Grey (I think the English spelling fits the meaning better). Then something snapped me back. I don't know what it was, but I know there was something, because there was always something. It's a continuing cycle. I live my life, believing one way or another, then I witness something that flies in the face of what I believe. So I'd switch, then switch back, etc.
I know this isn't revolutionary, but over the past, I don't know, let's say five years, I've come to think that very often, worldview arguments with two proponents have two correct answers (See I ♥ Huckabees, 2004). Example? Hmmm. Nothing is immediately forthcoming, and it could get me off topic, and I don't have enough time, so, sorry.
What I thought about the other day was a framework that incorporates Black, White, and Grey, and possibly more. This theory is built on the idea that inside one decision are a multitude of other decisions, each making it's own one Black or White contribution to the whole.
A base two number system can express any value that our base ten system can, and nowadays we have whole (relatively crude) worlds (I'm thinking of online games) that are made up of a bunch of ones and zeros.
I'd originally called it Binary Ethics, but people are already using that term (derogatorily) to describe the Black and White-ers, so I call it Constructive Binary Ethics. Good night.

 

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Blogger J. E. Ray Says:

OK, I've decided to rob a store. Among other things, I've decided to rob a convenience store, I've decided to use a firearm, and I've decided to rob the store when that asshole will be there, causing him to shit himself.
Now I could have robbed a retirement home, I could have elected not to bring a firearm, and I could have robbed it when that nice old lady works there.

 

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