(originally at www.evestus.ning.com on September 17, 2010)
What is an acceptable relation between means and the goal? What can, and what should people use to gain what they wish?
Now, one might find that saying to young boys - "Don't look at porn from the internet, instead take interest in humane treatment of animals" would be a noble thing to say, but what would be the results?
i'll give one quick example
Google image search Boobs
Google image search PeTA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals)
now did the sayer of the forequoted corny, yet upstanding phrase reach their goal? perhaps, for i would choose the second link - girls are prettier and images are of better quality, albeit the capions are not as witty. so now i'm more interested, formally, in PeTA than in boobs. But what really?
And on a remotely related topic, what the hell is PeTA trying to achieve? Increase in the amount of semen under the computer desks of desperate geeks?
Just so that you wouldn't think this is about boobs or PeTA, i'll give another example.
we all have gone through (or at least going through) math classes in primary education schools. Now, i rarely could remember any formulas, but remembering this and that from classes, i could get passed the tests using logic to get tasks done. So, in one test of trigonometry, i had to find the area of a triangle using a specific formula. but the triangle just happened to have equal sides, so the area was resolvable using a much easier method, wich i could make up myself. As a result i got the correct result, but failed the test, because i didn't use the right method.
so what is the word missing from the title?
glorifies?
sanctifies?
Or maybe the means gloryfies the means? (the method of solving a problem is more important than either the problem and solution?)
Why in the name of flying french fries of fuck can't people keep their focus? Why do i keep seeing pointless efforts made towards goals so distant and irrelevant? Why, why is the entire populace of this planet so dillusional, that Gods of every religion look down from cloud number quadrillion and say - whoooa, fuck that, i'm outta here!?
Now, one might find that saying to young boys - "Don't look at porn from the internet, instead take interest in humane treatment of animals" would be a noble thing to say, but what would be the results?
i'll give one quick example
Google image search Boobs
Google image search PeTA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals)
now did the sayer of the forequoted corny, yet upstanding phrase reach their goal? perhaps, for i would choose the second link - girls are prettier and images are of better quality, albeit the capions are not as witty. so now i'm more interested, formally, in PeTA than in boobs. But what really?
And on a remotely related topic, what the hell is PeTA trying to achieve? Increase in the amount of semen under the computer desks of desperate geeks?
Just so that you wouldn't think this is about boobs or PeTA, i'll give another example.
we all have gone through (or at least going through) math classes in primary education schools. Now, i rarely could remember any formulas, but remembering this and that from classes, i could get passed the tests using logic to get tasks done. So, in one test of trigonometry, i had to find the area of a triangle using a specific formula. but the triangle just happened to have equal sides, so the area was resolvable using a much easier method, wich i could make up myself. As a result i got the correct result, but failed the test, because i didn't use the right method.
so what is the word missing from the title?
glorifies?
sanctifies?
Or maybe the means gloryfies the means? (the method of solving a problem is more important than either the problem and solution?)
Why in the name of flying french fries of fuck can't people keep their focus? Why do i keep seeing pointless efforts made towards goals so distant and irrelevant? Why, why is the entire populace of this planet so dillusional, that Gods of every religion look down from cloud number quadrillion and say - whoooa, fuck that, i'm outta here!?
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