86 How I Failed Ethics

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Though majoring in Visual and 
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Environmental Studies
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And minoring in History of Sci
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I had to retake Ethics from my 
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Mennonite professor
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For whom my skepticism didn't fly


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The first time I made mincemeat of 
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the standard propositions
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Establishing a so-called moral 
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science
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And I declared morality an 
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offshoot of aesthetics
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And got a failing C for my defiance


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So next semester I back to 
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Divinity School trotted
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Proverbial tail not between my 
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legs
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And spent the whole course positing
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 my own ethical system
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While other college students 
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emptied kegs


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Information ethics, cyberethics —
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 both since taken —
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Said: Maximize the information 
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flow
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Toward a hypothetical end state in
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 which the cosmos
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Consists entirely of our info
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And at the highest level possible,
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 not only data
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But data about data dot dot dot
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Or life on top of life on top of 
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life, et cetera
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Profundity, my mother'd say — I'd 
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not


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My Mennonite professor did concede
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 I'd done the coursework
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Although my system left him quite 
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dismayed
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Depending, as it did, on neither 
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history nor Jahweh
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And gave me, finally, a passing 
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grade