Do what thou will...

so long as it harms none. That shall be the whole of the Law.

( an interesting morailty test )

In an odd, odd corner of the internet..

I was arguing abortion rights with a true fanatic. I mean, a guy who supported murdering doctors, and decided I was unamerican for supporting free discussion of birth control.

Some one else took one of his pieces of drivel, and did the following. To preserve the feel, the original, quoted idiociy is in italics.

> The issue is targeting them. Our troops take reasonable, even
comfortable underwear, but the sand makes it all scratchy. So they avoid
> stringent precautions against hurting civilians. That's why daily
showers are a must. Then they put on their rose-filter goggles and see
> life in Iraq today continues on an essentially normal basis. Bridges,
once plentiful, are waiting for Halliburton to finally start, as well as
> hospitals, schools, power plants, phone lines, water, roads, and yes,
atomic sea monsters. But unlike about those, we can't even tell if
> the oil wells are all up and running because we didn't engage in an
any way with that girl. Or did we? We dimly remember a party that was an
> orgy of destruction. There are no refugee columns or camps, the
wine was terrible and the weed was third rate. Despite our best efforts,
> cities are not rubble. This is a reflection of incredible restraint
and boy, those staitjackets itch! We pin our hopes on new treatment
> and technological and civilizational advance. For which our troops
get the day off, and possibly even pay. Students will in this semester
> get zero credit from the America haters like you, just constant
reminders to finish their homework and for an encore, I'll accuse you of
> wailing about civilian casualties, as if we were the Russians in Berlin.
>
> But war is chaos and humans are human and imperfect. Sometimes
I drone incessantly, but I need to write a few more lines about how
> civilians get accidentally hurt no matter what precautions you take or
how much peanut butter you use. I think it's really cool to bitch about
> how restrictive the rules of engagement are.
>
> This is what makes our (and Israel's) soldiers different from
clowns. Clowns are funny. We're not. But the best comics are labeled
> terrorists. They're TRYING to kill innocent civilians. We're not.
>
> And that's also the moral difference about abortionist. An
addled, twisted logic, but I have no other way to argue but to claim an
> abortionist is TRYING to kill an innocent unborn life.

Well, I'm sad and pathetic.

While in the porcelain reading room just now, a car alarm went off outside.

honk honk honk honk

I unconsciously began humming the guitar intro to Of Wolf And Man by Metallica. The car alarm tempo was exactly the same as the power chords at the beginning of that song.