procrastination

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I have two papers, one each for philosophy classes, due Monday/Tuesday, and I still haven't read the material.  At least Descartes is more palatable than that asshole Aristotle, and it doesn't help that my Rationalists professor reminds me of my roommate's boyfriend, whom I have absolutely despised since meeting him in high school.

The other evening after lecture, I was talking with the professor and mentioned how glad I was that we'd moved on, because ethics was boring as hell (quote).  Then at a discussion section, when the TA was explaining ethical subjectivism, I started laughing; I told him it was a retarded and utterly useless philosophy, then turned around and used it to defend the actions of serial killers.  Which pissed off some people, I think, and now I wonder if being a philosophy major is a good thing or not.  It seems that when people are discussing the ethics of war and killing, and debating Anselm's 'ontological argument for the existence of God,' they get a bit sensitive.  Gee, I couldn't imagine why.

...I am totally not procrastinating the start of my papers.  Really.

Comments

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I think in my school, because it's such a hippie place, defending people like murderers and saying that I couldn't imagine a human race without war (and that the argument for God was -lame-) was the real problem. So instead of being painfully conservative, it's a liberalism that doesn't like to accept non-liberal ideas, and now that I think about it, that seems a little hypocritical? Ah, well. Reversed conformity, maybe?

Think of it this way--we get to have more fun in classes.