Public Journal Entry: Felix (11/18/2012)

[om_ghost]

Just realized I don't have to get up and go to school tomorrow cause we have the whole week off. I mean, I knew it, but I just really KNEW it. You know?

I feel like I oughtto stay up real late and really enjoy it. But not in the library. Cause it's Sunday night and I'm in the library and I feel kinda stupid even though this is where the computers are. Anybody else wanna stay up stupidly late?

(Philip it's OK you don't have to come look for me.)

Edited November 19, 2012 11:15
BY THE WAY if you let Jean-Paul pick whatever he does for fun then get ready for a crazy night of TV cooking battles. On the up side now I know what a scallop is and how to super freeze strawberries.

Comments

[om_ghost]

This is really more interesting than the reading for the Philosophy class! Maybe because it actually seems like something real, and not something that an old man wrote about a hundred or a thousand years ago.

You really don't think there are any good reasons to lie? Does it count as a lie if you just don't say the entire truth?

[om_sage]

It seems to me that philosophy tends to be more engaging when treated as a conversation and not a lecture. Still, the foundational texts have much to recommend them, despite their sometimes-advanced age.

I make no assertions as to the morality or immorality of lying. I only suggest that it is useful, and that its usefulness makes it difficult to give up. Ideally, perhaps we should desire a world in which deception is unnecessary and honesty is universal, but the realities of day-to-day existence make the realization of such a world unlikely. Whether employed as an essential survival strategy or mere social lubricant, deceit penetrates all levels of human interaction too pervasively to be dismissed as an evil. I would offer that the more interesting question is whether one remains in control of one's lies, or if they instead control the liar.

And yes. From my persepctive, a lie of omission is still a deliberate attempt at misdirection, and so falls under the same rubric.