Please help, as I have not gotten anything and I'm really trying to get things taken care of and need some help.
I am a disabled non-binary individual who unable to work, and I need to raise funds to buy medications not covered by insurance and cat food/litter. I've got doctor's appointments this coming week I need to be able to get to. I'm trying to at least get $50 in the short term so I can get my bus pass before the cutoff tomorrow.
Do this specifically so a judge has to rule if someone is being a dick or not. File amicus briefs on the definition of being a dick. Assemble a jury of peers to decide if the defendants are being a dick. Appeal to the supreme court to rule if the court erred in their judgement of the dickishness at question in this matter.
Today in 1915, 109 years ago: the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was created in the United States. It is the predecessor organization of the US space agency, NASA.
Thank you, Teri @Teri_Kanefield! (And thank you Chuck @ATurnOfTheNut!) I hadn't read Stephanie Jones' writing until now. She's great. Her writing really gets you, right in your heart.
@outer@Teri_Kanefield@ATurnOfTheNut Thanks for sharing. I read her entire blogpost and found it be so affecting. It was great. Being of the same generation and ethnic background as Stephanie, I could so relate to her feelings about her dad. Mine, unfortunately, died young. But her dad’s philosophy was just like my mom’s and my grand-parents’: we’ve been through the worst of oppression, but never gave up. Don’t you give up either, as the next generation. @blackmastodon#blackmastodon
I think as well as sharing my Autistic experiences I'm going to also try and share information about my combination of chronic diseases and what it does to an individual's body over time... It seems many people I am close to have never even heard much about Celiac's or especially Graves' disease...
@rb3n@philosophy The author of that paper seems to have fundamentally misunderstood the concept of a philosophy thought experiment.
The practicalities of how the trolley situation might arise or who the agents involved are is immaterial. It is designed to elucidate the principles of different ethical approaches.
It challenges the consequentialist to consider the costs of acting on behalf of "the greater good"; likewise it asks the deontologist to consider whether ethics can be axiomatic.
@rb3n@philosophy Daniel Dennet famous called thought experiments "intuition pumps": Scenarios taken at face value that help us get to the heart of a problem without having an emotive reaction cloud our understanding.
When I was an undergrad studying greek philosophy I wondered why my lecturer used the example of cake when discussing akkrasia (temptation) instead of sex or alcohol. However reflecting on it cake is ideal for expressing the concept without eliciting an emotional reaction.