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Posted on 05/31/2002 5:05:20 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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Funny, I thought you could only be bitten by a Møøse.
This must be like one of those old weird movies that dealt with nuclear war and, if exposed to radiation .. or, in this case, pesticides .. things were always turning into horrible flesh-eating monsters...
The Peach that Ate Pittsburg"
Oh, and Laz, are you sure that your sister was bitten by a Møøse? Might it not have been a peach dressed up like a Møøse? Or maybe it was just a peach of a Møøse.
Der Elite Møøsenspåånkengruppen OberKømmååndø
And having said that, the pilots union will probably "discover" that in order to wear a firearm in the cockpit, they merely had to become federal agents.
Let me see, next up here on the agenda ... Oh yeah(!), "Only Government Should Own Property."
I hope it did not.
The point, I make, is pointless.
As it does or does not pertain to the point above.
To wit: You know there's too much money in the system when government agents and agencies have time to protect their budgets, and what would really help the country is a MASSIVE tax cut all around, sales, income, capital gains, property --- kind of like turning off the electricity to the understanding-impaired.
Healthy møøses only bite sisters. Møøses subjected to global warming, acid rain and pesticides will bite anyone.
Answer - "Common sense is forbidden, it just has to make you feel good".
One of my møøses would only eat virgin sisters .. and, since I don't have any virgin sisters (or sisters at all for that matter), you can imagine how difficult it was to keep this one healthy ... not to mention having to send Igor out in the night to abduct virgin sisters (and then having to spend my time after his return checking to ensure that they WERE virgins). Between that and the townspeople with pitchforks and torches banging on my drawbridge, I didn't get much sleep during feeding times.
But most of my møøses weren't so picky and would simply bite any sister that they could run down.
Every now and then though, during the cold and flu season, one of my møøses would get sick and then it would be Katie-bar-the-door (that is, if you could get Katie close enough to actually do so) and it would bite everything in sight.
Ah, well, the trials and tribulations of raising møøses for fun and profit. Maybe I'll look into chickens or alpacas ... do you know if wombats bite?
DO NOT attempt to raise wombats, unless you're prepared to move first. If brought within 1,000 yards of møøse scent (which persists for decades), they fly into an UNCONTROLLABLE RAGE.
Well, I guess that would explain the temperament of my Australian wife.
(And if you tell her I said that, I'm going to sick my most amorous møøse on you.)
Shelly Kagan Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics PhD 1982, Princeton. Contact Information
Office: 204 CT Hall Phone: 432-1663 Email: shelly.kagan@yale.edu
Areas of Interest
Ethics, social and political philosophy. As my publications reveal, my main research interests lie in moral philosophy, in particular normative ethics. Indeed, my second book is a systematic survey of the field of normative ethics, considered analytically (rather than historically, as is more typical of textbooks in ethics). More particularly still, much of my work centers on the debate between consequentialist and deontological moral theories. My first book dealt with two common objections to consequentialism, that it is too demanding, and that it fails to recognize that certain types of acts are morally forbidden--even when performing those acts would bring about the best possible results. I argue that neither objection can be sustained. The book thus constitutes a kind of back door defense of consequentialism. Since then, much of my work has been devoted to trying to arrive at an adequate theory of the good (to incorporate into that consequentialist framework), with publications on (among other things) the nature of well-being, the concept of intrinsic value, and problems involving ranking worlds with infinite amounts of utility. For the last several years I have been working on the nature of moral desert. I think that desert is a far more complex topic than has been previously appreciated, but that we can make progress in better understanding the alternative possible views that are available here by representing these views in graphs. Hence the title of my main work in progress, The Geometry of Desert.
Selected Publications
Books: The Limits of Morality (Oxford, 1989) Normative Ethics (Westview, 1998)
Articles: "The Additive Fallacy", Ethics 99, #1 (October, 1988): 5-31. "The Structure of Normative Ethics", Philosophical Perspectives 6 (1992): 223-242. "Me and My Life", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 94 (1994): 309-324. "Infinite Value and Finitely Additive Value Theory" (with Peter Vallentyne), The Journal of Philosophy 94, #1 (January, 1997): 5-26. "Equality and Desert", in What Do We Deserve?, edited by Owen McLeod and Louis Pojman (Oxford: 1998): 298-314. "Rethinking Intrinsic Value", The Journal of Ethics 2, #4 (1998): 277-297. "Evaluative Focal Points", in Morality, Rules, and Consequences, edited by Brad Hooker, Elinor Mason, and Dale Miller (Edinburgh: 2000): 134-155. "Thinking About Cases", Social Philosophy and Policy 18, #2 (2001): 44-63 "Kantianism for Consequentialists," forthcoming, Kant's Groundwork, ed. Allen Wood (Yale University Press).
Works in Progress
Book: The Geometry of Desert Articles: Indeterminate Desert "Comparative Desert"
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