The Workermonkey

Friday, April 15, 2005

mostly in response to ron 

# posted by josh @ 4/15/2005 12:57:00 AM

but maybe too much for a comment, so alas, a new post.

1) the new green day album is excellent. i dig how they broke song #2 into 5 parts.

2) i did happen to hear about the pharmacists because i check out the bill maher real time website each week after his show (i'm too poor for hbo to watch it). it's ridiculous. imagine if everyone expressed their "morals" in doing their job. nothing would ever get done. there would be little, if any, consistency. that's why many professions (e.g. lawyers, doctors) have separate codes of ethics and/or oaths; so there's a standardized ethics scheme (i wont quibble here about the difference b/w ethics and morals, i dont think it particularly relevant here). of course there is some stretch room w/in these schemes, which allows for some discretion by people. and we need this discretion. but unbridled discretion making power would just lead to chaos. there wouldn't be checks in many systems. imagine if courts could just overrule each other if they didnt like what the other one said. say one state just doesnt like the supreme court's decision so their courts just ignore it in cases with the same issue. that wouldn't work.

as it is now, legislatures will pass laws to get around decisions, but these laws may subsequently be challenged. and they wont be, unless they actually create a problem. but if someone is injured by them, then they will have their day in court. ok i got off on a legal rant, but you get the point. everyone expressing their individual morals at the workplace = chaos.

3. the gay thing. funny you should bring it up today. last night my closest "friend" here calls me, and tells me he's playing this joke on our other friend. what's the joke? he told the other guy that i was gay. who knows where he came up w/ it, that's not important. and i thought it was kinda funny. now the other guy is a conservative. now the first guy was telling me about when he was convincing the 2nd, and he said the 2nd guy was like, wow, now i'm going to feel uncomfortable around him and all. now, why is a gay person any different?

and i think i can actually say this, cuz a kid i was friends w/ at colby came out. great guy. i still talk tohim now and then. but i was friends w/ him for a while before i found out. and it didnt matter. i mean who cares? he didn't come on to me. he knew i was straight (to bring this back to our little joke, the 2nd guy is married, so i would have reason to know he's straight, if i were really gay). if he came onto me that might've changed things, but not even necessarily. i mean hell, i've hooked up w/ girls and gone on to be friends w/ them w/o it being weird. anyway, i just dont see it. damn homophobic people.

4. i've also thought about running for some sort of office if the whole law thing didnt turn out to be all i imagined it. if i started locally i migth be ok, cuz my dad's done some stuff...school board, planning and zoning, etc. got the name out there to be recognizable in the community at least. but i htink i might be too liberal on some issues. i might just get too frustrated w/ people and say that we should abolish social classes. i mean, the proletariat, come on. people dont deserve to be able to govern themselves, they're too stupid.


enough communism for one night. although, i have recently obtained a books on tape version of the manifesto and look forward to listening. might have a print copy somewhere as well from my poly sci days.



long live ussr.

signing off

j.marx







disclaimer: the above writing may not be attributable to the author "josh" as this work has been produced under conditions of delirium and general fatigue. private property is bs. hey--who said that?

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