consequential and deontoligcal ethics. i have been given names for the bloody things. obviously : jimmoi suffers from consequential ethic syndrome, the sad belief that "the more people it helps, the better the thing is" ... I however am more deontoligcal - my believe system stating that "reguardless of how many people are helped, if something is wrong - it is wrong." this is obviously evident in our much fumed-over World War Two debate... which I silently forgot about. I must quote this from my "buisness law/ethics" book ... it's classic, I laughed out loud and the teacher yelled at me for being 'anti-social and having a generally bad mood all the time.' I laughed about that too. In any event, I don't think she likes me a whole lot, go figure : neither did Devine. Maybe it's because they aren't teaching anything. They just read from a book that gives them questions to arise at the most opportune of times. You'll never see one of them off-the-wall jump into another topic, drop ethics, and start talking about how the saltine cracker industry is suffering from employees not taking salted crackers as seriously as they should. No. strictly to the book. carbon-copy teachers. they could easily be replaced with large boxes that read any text you fill into it, and then spew out the words on the text in a mechanical manner whenever it is programmed to interrupt the class from 'reading out loud' and say "what do you think about the grafitti on the wall? well, what do you think (insert student name)?" ... but of course - that would be too impersonal. Nobody wants to listen to a giant metal box that sounds like a mechanicaly retarded target employee (cough).

Oh, yes - the quote : "Under the U.S. Constitution, the courts would declare such laws invalid because they deny "equal protection of the law" to the minority. Other concepts of natrual rights are used to protect political minorities from exploitation by those who make up the political majority. For example, the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declares: "No person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."

{ cute? it gets better }

The United States of America is a country that recognizes and supports human rights. Other countries vary dramatically in the extent to which they do so. Civil rights ( or civil liberties ) generally are personal, human rights recognized and guaranteed by our Constitution.

I saw the line "The u.s.a. is a country that recognizes and supports human rights" and laughed aloud, as I was thinking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - and thinking about their debates "hey guys, wouldnt that violate our "no person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" idea? and then the man is shot, and the leader says "anyone else want to talk about cock-a-mi-mi 'civil rights' with your panzy 'fifth amendments'? THIS IS WAR DAMNIT."
eh, i thought it was funny, some general sayinc cock-a-mi-mi.. that was classic. oh well.

hey jeff - sorry about the secret hidden small messege : i wrote it out, looked back on it - and said to myself : 'thats just wrong' ... i attemptd to delete it before i went to sleep last night... and uh, was so tired that when I figured it wouldnt actually delete - i didn't care. so, this is a formal apology for being an ass. what I did was entirely un-called for. bah. in any event - i read brave new world ( have you? ) and it's god-like. beauty at it's finest. I have to see and find if i can get anything else written by Huxley. good stuff. a man of genius.

I didn't do my math homework today. I got shot off track because of getting pulled out of class on monday, i believe. so tomorrows work i'll be sure to have done. one missing assignment, big deal right? seems i cannot see tripod images through the bethel school site. either that or the posting is just still fux0red with tripod. so instead of constantly coming here to have someone suggest a provider to me - im going home today to find one myself. I think xoom, however, doesn't allow outside viewing either. blasted.

In other news : two teachers died - one of viral pneumonia and the other of a brain aneurysm. everyone was sad. everyone cried. they were loved. however I do imagine some students out there who use to always call the teachers bitches (ironically, they were both women teachers) and use to wish they would die, came to school - found the teachers were dead - and have now crossed over to christianity, believing they were responsible for the deaths of the teachers. ahh, isn't self-punishment grand? oh, and in L.A. a study was done that has proven that in 97-98 there was a 59% of all shows on television that talked about sex, now there is 68% in 99-00. not only that, but only 10% talk about the risks and responsibilities of sex and it's other such sodomizing pleasures.

[enter jimmoi from left stage] Jimmoi : butt-sex. [exit jimmoi to right stage]

In other manners of putting it : Among sitcoms, 84 percent contain sexually oriented language or action, up from 56 percent in the previous study. Only movies, at 89 percent, have more sex. Among dramas, sexual content rose from 58 percent to 69 percent. Hoo-rah. I just cant wait until instead of going to school to learn about sex - you go, they say "your assignment today is to go home and watch channel 99" and in the future channel 99 will not only be the spice channel but the EDUCATIONAL spice ... ( Edu-spice for short ) channel. Yesssh...

The future will be grand, superb, and most of all : hedonistically unimpared.
... something like a soma-holiday