Egads!-Begets-Vie Gehts?

Brute fact empiricism trumps ethics, sometimes at least.


I mean, that's what we could get down to with regimented utilitarian analyses in at least some cases.


This is part of the reason that Socrates said that people who knew what was truly good would not choose wrong. He sees the choices between good and bad as just ignorant.

Flagging this objective world for a second, isn't it obvious what we would do if we had that kind of knowledge?

If we knew that helium causes brain damage, would you still breathe in a helium balloon?

This seems remarkably similar to drug education. (Which sometimes works? I mean, the D.A.R.E. programs have been wiped out; were these worthless? do kids not learn like we thought?)



So if we have these educated people, they avoid crime, right? It's all too good to be true.


But as always, the difference between a low quality life and a high quality life is EDUCATION.



I have 3 hours until I hand in the worst essay I have ever written. Here's to passing!