[b]Existential Comics
Should we steal other people’s jokes?
Utilitarianism: if it makes more people laugh, then yes.
Deontology: if everyone stole jokes, no one would bother to write jokes.
Virtue Ethics: god damn dude, really? what kind of fucking loser steals jokes and passes them off as their own.[/b]
You know, if this is actually important to you.
Should we go to war with Iran?
Plato: no
Augustine: no
Aquinas: no
Maimonides: no
Marx: no
Locke: no
Mill: no
Russell: no
Every other philosopher ever: no
Hypothetically as it were.
When you have anxiety in your dreams, don’t worry, that’s just your brain trying to figure out the most efficient ways to give you anxiety in waking life.
Going all the way back to God for some. The Big Bang for others.
Frege believed humans beings could never count higher than 10,000, but Kurt Gödel later showed that even for numbers as small as 500 things simply cannot be counted.
True?
[b]“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”
- the Democratic National Committee[/b]
Of course the Republican National Committee contracts that out to the Kremlin.
Sometimes I like to think Karl Marx is out there somewhere, looking down on us, saying to himself “man you guys really fucked it up.”
Either that or rolling in his grave.