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EXISTENTIAL

                                                   April     6, 2009
The essence of                                     July     15, 2009
existentialism:      (which no doubt               February 19, 2010
                     preceeded it's
  One can make       existance).
  decisions that
  re-define the
  self, that
  transform the       Myself, I tend to
  entity making       regard the individual     With the exception of some
  the choices.        as recalcitrant,          extreme technological
                      reluctant to change.      interference...

  Further, one                    Many relatively              DRUGS
  *has* to make                   Big Decisions
  these decisions:                often have
  there's no                      surprisingly
  alternative to                  little effect       But then, they
  freedom.                        on later            don't have zero
                                  decisions:          effect.
  An appeal to
  authority                              Choosing a
  requires that     Even the             school, A
  you choose        incarcerated         field of
  *which*           has to choose        study, even
  authority.        how to take          choosing a
                    imprisonment.        religion.

  Attempts at             You can't
  grounding these         destroy
  decisions in pure       the freedom
  reason and logic        of the self
  have always             without         individuality == freedom ?
  failed: there is        destroying
  no scientific           the self.       and society == constraint ?
  morality to
  dictate which
  choice you should
  make.

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