a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by lil
lil  ·  3674 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Anyone Interested in IRC around 11 p.m. tonight EST - Help me forget the BDSM tapes!

Do you have a topic? Let's prepare. Not that topics work too well on IRC.





OftenBen  ·  3674 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The value of consistency within a personal ethic was the primary thing. I would rather live a life with as few contradicting beliefs as possible, but I want to hear everyone else's thoughts on the issue.

For example, I don't want to support exploitative labor practices, but then I would never be able to own practically any electronic device.

Or a positive example, I base most of my life off of logic and rationality, which breaks down under close scrutiny, making it fundamentally illogical. Induction is essentially the basis of modern logical/scientific thought, and it's broken.

coffeesp00ns  ·  3674 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think topics work if you use them as bouncing off points for the rest of the conversation, instead of trying to shoe-horn them in unnecessarily.