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#202994 10/28/11 01:58 PM
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Can someone please illuminate the meaning of this sentence to me;

"My ethical unpredictability is default proof of its hard-won vitality because I’m not, like, by rote or programmatic about it. I think this shit through—every issue"

Does the person saying this mean they are actually ethical because they think about the things they do and these things do worry them, and thus by that logic they are actually ethical?

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Is this sentence some kind of fallacy?

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I think what the person is trying to convey is that they consider each ethical problem individually and do not make ethical judgments based on ideology. As a result, their ethics seem unpredictable to others because they do not fit into ready-made categories.


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I agree with zmjezhd.

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Yup. "I may seem random and hypocritical, but that's all you."

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And as Zm said, people have ready made categories. And when
others don't fit into them, they get bent all out of shape
and, instead of looking at themselves, they judge others.
It is not just randomness and hypocrisy, Peter, but in many
other areas as well. Well, it is on them. Judge not lest ye
be judged.


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I'm just a boy whose intentions are good....
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood!

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olly--you're an animal! wink

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