Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Kathy and I took the ferry yesterday and headed over to Dartmouth and the V.V. boutique. I never uncover great finds there anymore. I suppose after you find a 3/4 length sleeve shirt that reads "World's Fastest Man" it's all downhill from there.
I did manage to pick up a book of Canadian sports writing. There was the usual, Scott Young penned hockey pieces, Red Fisher remembrances of the golden age of hockey, attempts by Toronto writer to impart some sort of mythic aura to the Blue Jays (they always fail). I was excited mostly because there was a piece by Mordecai Richler included in the collection. I'm not such a fan of Richler's fiction, but I'm in love with anything he's written about sports.
I looked long and hard at 3 yr old directory of Christian Bed and Breakfasts. I thought there might be at least one interesting write-up, "No same sex couples!", "On site exorcisms!", "Jesus night lights guide your way as you walk up the staircase of this beautiful and saintly Victorian home. Your hosts are Margaret and Jim Kolb, a former Jesuit priest.", "We respectively ask that you refrain from drinking the holy water.", "Inquire about one of our theme rooms!"
No such luck. It just turned out to be a directory of boring bed and breakfasts.
I did find a game called Moral Choice that gives you a situation and asks you what would be the morally correct thing to do. You can use Kant and Mill as your guides. For example in the situation where a woman in a loveless marriage meets an attractive man at a party who asks her to leave early with him, Kant would say that the morally correct thing to do is for the woman to say no whereas Mill, using a utilitarian formula, would say that the woman should have a secret affair with the man.
Ain't ethics great?
I did manage to pick up a book of Canadian sports writing. There was the usual, Scott Young penned hockey pieces, Red Fisher remembrances of the golden age of hockey, attempts by Toronto writer to impart some sort of mythic aura to the Blue Jays (they always fail). I was excited mostly because there was a piece by Mordecai Richler included in the collection. I'm not such a fan of Richler's fiction, but I'm in love with anything he's written about sports.
I looked long and hard at 3 yr old directory of Christian Bed and Breakfasts. I thought there might be at least one interesting write-up, "No same sex couples!", "On site exorcisms!", "Jesus night lights guide your way as you walk up the staircase of this beautiful and saintly Victorian home. Your hosts are Margaret and Jim Kolb, a former Jesuit priest.", "We respectively ask that you refrain from drinking the holy water.", "Inquire about one of our theme rooms!"
No such luck. It just turned out to be a directory of boring bed and breakfasts.
I did find a game called Moral Choice that gives you a situation and asks you what would be the morally correct thing to do. You can use Kant and Mill as your guides. For example in the situation where a woman in a loveless marriage meets an attractive man at a party who asks her to leave early with him, Kant would say that the morally correct thing to do is for the woman to say no whereas Mill, using a utilitarian formula, would say that the woman should have a secret affair with the man.
Ain't ethics great?
# posted by Die Brucke @ 10:10 AM 
