Net cool :)

[tinyjo]

Well, I am now cool - it's official. Finally I can bask in the smug glow of having been the first to do something. Yes, the Philosophy magazine is now being discovered by the net community (see here and here) :) I can proudly announce that I sent this link via email ages ago (ah, if only I'd had a livejournal then :) ), already subscribe to the print version of the mag and playtested the Shakespeare vs Britney Spears game! I know that this is appalling boasting but it just makes me feel cool! My fave bits on the site are the Philosophical Health Check and the logic tests, possibly indicating that logic/consistency is very important to me (surprise, surprise). This was also indicated when I did the Morality play test and came out as basically believing that moral principles should be consistent across scale and geography. See - philosophy is cool after all :)

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[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got that first one too. It's definatly tricky. I guess it's one of those ones where I didn't quite think through properly what it meant to say that "Genocide is evil" - I read it more as "I think genocide is evil" which is subtly different.

The other one I get is the problem of evil - I said both that there was a loving god and that it was wrong to alow suffering that you could easily prevent to happen. The question then is well how come God does. I'd say a couple of things to that. Firstly, I don't believe that the morals which apply to us would also apply to God - he's a completely different type of being. Secondly, what appears as suffering to us may not appear as suffering to God, who would be judging by other criteria. And thirdly (more of a pedantic niggle) I only said a loving god, not a moral one.

Basically I love things like that which really make you think about why you believe what you believe and how it all fits together :)