A L O H A From
H O N O L U L U
H O N O L U L U
Gummy Bears
Create all the happiness
you are able to create;
Remove all the misery
you are able to remove.
Jeremy Bentham *
Monarch & Crown Flowers
Without the fire,
the phoenix never rises
from the ashes.
Forrest Curran
Between stimulus and
response there is
a space.
In that space is
our power to choose
our response.
In our response lies our
growth and our freedom.
Victor Frankl
As soon as you trust yourself
you will know how to live.
Goethe
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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia
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Linking To
I am out with lanterns,
looking for myself.
Emily Dickinson
*Jeremy Bentham was a philosopher, economist, legal reformer, and the founder of modern utilitarianism, an ethical theory holding that actions are morally right if they tend to promote happiness or pleasure (and morally wrong if they tend to promote unhappiness or pain) among all those affected by them. So if killing one person would make many people happy, then the killing would be moral. Or would it? I remember discussing this in Philosophy in school.....
5 comments:
I am fascinated by the kalidescopic image at the beginning of the post. Your philosophic info about what is morality is very interesting. Our country definitely has some moral issues!
best... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
You have gotten really philosophical today. Pixie is pondering deeply. In that moment of decision, do we take the life of that pesky mosquito and possibly prevent a West Nile or Dengue Fever epidemic? Or do we let it live and treasure it because it is a living, sentient being that loves to suck our blood and spread disease... The best option: choose the gummies of light!
I'm all for creating happiness.
But... killing a person for the happiness of many still wouldn't make it right.
I agree with Mae. Right now our country appears to have morality issues.
Beautiful words to live by! ❤️
Another day to practice what we learn
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