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Oh wait, they're probably more than that already.
I loved that Christopher Hitchens essay that showed the supposedly benign Count Chocula for the cruel, morally bankrupt tyrant he really is.
This comic is the most brilliant Tom the Dancing Bug I have ever seen.
Absolutely hilarious.
but funny! (and stays crispy in milk!)
Be sure to watch the on-line ad for the fancy butt-washing contraption. Just click on the row of smiley bottoms.
I too know the cruel sting of weltschmertze and the ameliorative properties that only Die Loops Von Froot can bring when the tit of mother happiness has run dry.
I have no idea of the difference between a deontologist and a consequentialist, but I love it anyway.
Okay, that was seriously weird in a good way. I love esoteric humor - so odd I had to think about it for more than a bit.
From Wiki:
Consequentialism refers to those moral theories which hold that the consequences of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral judgment about that action. Thus, on a consequentialist account, a morally right action is an action which produces good consequences.
Consequentialism is usually understood as distinct from both deontology, which derives the rightness or wrongness of an act from the nature of the act itself.
I wish I was as smart and funny as Ruben Bolling.
Thank you thank you thank you for the Immanuel Kant joke.
The Klaus Kinski panel was inspired, but the Kant panel was brilliant. Well done, old mole!
And reminiscent of an old, often-cited favorite, "Breakfast Theory" by Jeff Reid, visible here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33032196@N00/62027592/
Post-Modern Toasties: Like everything you've had before, all mixed up!
Very funny stuff. Even funny comics rarely make me chuckle aloud, but this one had my cubicle neighbors looking at me curiously.
Tom the Dancing Bug is probably the biggest reason I got a subscription.
Tom the Dancing Bug is probably the smartest comic since the Far Side.
that Martin Amis looks like Charlie, the little Neanderthal guy, except clean-shaven?
Kids, Eat non-sugar-coated Pebbles, with 100% real rocks!
...is the understanding of moral theory based around the concept of duty. Thus, any given act will have a deontic status (permissible, forbidden, obligatory) depending on what duties are outlined by the theory. For Kant, the primary duty of all human beings was to treat other human beings as 'ends in themselves'.
A 10.0 on the Kinski-meter.