2007.12.21

PZ has the story on a 40-year-old Afghan man who has just married an eleven-year-old girl. Ah, but it's just another culture and we should respect that. 2007-12-21T17:27:26ZUntitled entry permalink

Luciano Floridi has an excellent article about the ethics of RMT in MMORPGs. There are some interesting ethical issues here, but I don't think that Floridi gets into them. This is to do with the fact that many online games have a controlled economy and that economy can be dictated by the manufacturers - the game manufacturers can change how the economy runs. Does this mean that players should exploit it without any moral mercy, or should they act in the same way as they do in the real world? 2007-12-21T17:15:36ZUntitled entry permalink

The Guardian has a piece up about the McGinn-Honderich review dispute (see 2007.12.15; via Brian Leiter). 2007-12-21T17:00:44ZUntitled entry permalink

SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX 2007-12-21T18:16:52ZTitled entry permalink

We're all quite liberal here, so you won't mind me linking to the top ten sexy geeks of 2007. Woooweeeeh! Oh baby, I love the way you carry that PickAxe!

My chosen profession can't compete on that front, alas. The mixture of schoolmarmish women and excessively beardy men. It's just... yeah. Don't go there.

To give you both sides of the story, we need to talk about !sex - or sex == false or whatever. There's some good news on the anti-anti-sex thing. More and more states are rejecting federal abstinence-only funding.

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Tom Morris
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am in preparation for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

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