Category: Philosophy

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GRIZZLY MAN

  1. Was Timothy Treadwell protecting the bear or exploiting the bear or does it matter?
  2. Can humans live in nature absent the things that make us human: to include socialized/communal hunting, tools, fire?
  3. Do we run the risk, being around animals, of projecting our own fears and emotions on to the animals, do owners?
  4. Did he go crazy, was he crazy to begin with? Did he replace one drug with another? Is that the sober life?
  5. Wouldn’t it be COOL if A.I. advances enough, that you can have an app on your phone called dzog, where as you die a voice can be heard, sounding like Werner Herzog, narrating you death.
  6. Is there something contradictory about filming/recording oneself in nature? Compare/contrast with the into the wild story … Christopher McCandless
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I AM a NON-CONSEQUENTIALIST

… and I can’t imagine a Christian that wouldn’t be, with Pascal’s Wager as a CAUTIONARY backdrop.

“Consequentialists” or Utilitarians or any “the ends justifies the means” freaks drool over the TROLLEY PROBLEM … but it’s a Skinner Box, it’s a torture chamber. As with the Milgram Experiment: it might just be Doritos for the brain.

BTW: great exploration of the “trolley problem” is the 1964 CLASSIC “FAIL-SAFE” …