Posts by Edward Green

I'm practically freaking out from pure joy here 🙂
faaaaaja 🙂

agents (moral agents + moral patients)
Basically, anyone capable of making a choice and actually following through on it.

moral agents: people who are willing to own their decisions and take responsibility for them.

moral patients: the ones being acted upon, where the result comes from a moral agent’s action or failure to act.

Can someone please break this down for me? I consider myself a smart person, but I am seriously struggling to wrap my head around this. help me out.

Also, I just finished reading *Ethics for Dummies*. It’s a good read, but it does absolutely nothing to help me explain how context impacts different parts of the moral sphere on a page and a half of an A4 paper. Not even when I crank up the line spacing and the font size.

Is this about that guy talking to his son? I've got to read all this and build a whole map of morality by next Thursday—assuming I actually have time to go to school, eat, and sleep, right?

I have to break down the "moral sphere." It's this diagram—I don't even know if this is a real thing or if my teacher just made it up to make me draw it—where there's a ball with an arrow pointing at it labeled (1) context. At the top of the ball, it says (2) values, and then an arrow points down from there labeled (3) principles. From those principles, four arrows shoot out: (4) moral agent, (6) action or inaction, (7) consequences, and (8) moral patient. Between (4) and (6), there's a arrow labeled (5). At the bottom of the ball is (9) relationship, and there are also arrows connecting it to both (4) and (8).

values
principles
moral agent action or inaction ----> consequences ---> moral patient
relationship

Project:
investigating the impact of morality on the individual and society

• investigating the impact of morality on the individual and society
• the importance of morality and moral decision-making
• the execution of a moral act
• re-examining key moral factors (agent, patient, values, actions/consequences, context...)

From what I gathered, I need to write about a page and a half for every single part of this moral sphere.

Take context, for example.

• Is it even possible to separate any part of the moral sphere from its context?
• How does context affect the different parts of the moral sphere?
• Is there a specific Western moral perspective? Is there a national moral perspective?
• How do biology and gender differences influence moral perspectives?
• How do geographical features influence moral perspectives?

Now, if I pick that third question, I can't just say "yes" and move on to values; I have to elaborate on my thesis for a page and a half. But honestly, I haven't slept in days. I'm so exhausted I'm basically just a walking organism craving basic survival needs. I don't have the brainpower left to think about morality.

I’ve gotta write some essay for my ethics class, so I figured I’d check here to see if anything actually happened. Anything worth knowing?

Because some kid on a blog told me to reach out, so I messaged them saying my setup is acting up, and they’re asking which OS and IE I’m running. But the damn thing doesn't even show me that info. It's driving me nuts.

If I just reinstall IE, will this whole mess stop happening? Right now, the Content Advisor keeps popping up constantly, blocking me from everywhere. I have to disable it over and over again because the settings just reset back to the worst possible restrictions. I can't even open pages without a rating, yet the damn thing just turns itself back on automatically.
And how do you even reinstall IE?

I'm such an idiot. Thanks a lot. And seriously, I'm not kidding about this Content Advisor crap. I'm not creative enough to make up a lie like that.

Write me a version: and nothing else 😕

please 🙂

Just throw some salt on the wound, why don't you 🙄 😁
I want it, but my mom won't let me because she’d probably drop dead on the spot if she even drank tea made in a microwave. She'd end up growing a whole extra set of eyes or something.
I'll buy it myself. And look, if I didn't get lung cancer from eighteen years of secondhand smoke, some damn microwave isn't going to kill me.

Melissa Cruz2 said:Oatmeal, some diced orange, maybe a couple of raisins, and a splash of milk or yogurt. Guaranteed to keep me full until lunch without feeling like I'm starving.

Until lunch?
Give me a break. A bowl of fruit muesl, a blended apple and banana, honey, and a bit of milk won't even get me halfway there before I'm looking for a snack.

It says so right there in the manual.

Look, maybe I'm wrong here, but I honestly feel like overthinking everything you eat is the worst way to actually lose weight. You know? Like, "If I had this for lunch, I can't have that," or "How many calories are even in these zucchini slices?" It's exhausting.

I’ve never really dealt with being, you know, significantly overweight, so I don't get what it's like to try and drop 40 pounds. But when I notice I've put on a little extra—I don't use a scale, I just tell when my jeans feel tight—I just tell my mom to grab me some granola instead of that sugary cereal for breakfast, and that pretty much does it.

Then there's this friend of mine who went from 175 to 130 over the summer without even trying. She wasn't dieting, wasn't counting macros, nothing. She just walked her dog for a few hours every day. Sure, not everyone has the time or ability to do that, but the point is... she wasn't obsessed with food.

You just don't have the willpower.
So you need someone else to step up and provide it for you?
I think you're heading down the wrong path.

The results come in tomorrow. Fingers crossed. 🙂

Honestly, I can pretty much pull off any pair of jeans 😳

I'm not cutting any corners, I'm clearing them out of my way... 😁

It just doesn't make sense to me how you can't afford those jeans when you're offering six cents more than I am. 🙂

Look, I don't have any hips😬 so I'm not exactly the perfect model here, but a friend of mine is about 5'5", 140 lbs, and every single pair of jeans she buys is way too long. She constantly has to get them hemmed because her leg length is basically three or four sizes smaller than what's standard.🙄

And honestly, I have zero clue what a size 25 even looks like.😁

I’m going to go ahead and assume you're getting screwed on these jeans, because brands make "tall" styles for girls with long legs but zero hips. You end up with stuff that fits the length but is too tight, or vice versa. Personally, I hate it when my jeans ride up too high, so being slim enough to just let them drag on the floor is actually a win.😁

Anyway, I'm out of here before I think of something even stupider to say.

My brother actually brought me some jeans from Italy once that were insanely long—it seems like every brand does this. He also brought me a pair that was huge in the waist but still ridiculously long. If I track down those specific ones, I'll let you know.

placidraven22 said:You have no idea what it's like being 5'8" and only 115 lbs. I can't even find clothes that fit. Every single model size out there is geared toward people weighing like 45 lbs. It's ridiculous.

You think you're so thin? Think again. Let’s talk reality here. You want short people? Fine. But let's look at "slim" models for a second. Give me a break. I'm over 50 and carrying about 2 extra pounds—I don't have a scale, but I know my own body—standing 5'5". And guess what? I can still find jeans that fit just fine. No big deal.

I had a nasty UTI... knocked back two whole rounds of antibiotics and I'm feeling fine now 🙂 at least, hopefully 😁

My mom used to tell me the exact same thing—that my nails were going to look terrible. I knew she was right, and honestly, it used to make me cry because I just couldn't stop biting them.
Ugh, and then 🙂
Then, somehow, I actually managed to quit. No clue how.
Now they’re a mess—sometimes they're long, sometimes they're bitten down short.😁
The only thing that helps is keeping a nail file nearby. The second I feel a rough edge, I end up putting it in my mouth and biting it just to smooth it out.😁
I don't stop until there's nothing left to bite.

That liquid is gonna turn into something real nasty for you soon enough 😁