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Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  .This section is about  basic questions of ethics that occur to one.  ---  12/30/2003


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  .This section is about some questions regarding ethics.  Topics include:  ---  1/24/2006


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  "Why live?", is the first question.  "How live?", is the second.  ---  12/30/1992


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  (1) What can I do?  What am I capable of doing?  (2) What should I do?  Arguments for and against all the alternatives. (3) What needs to be done?  What are the problems in the world?  ---  11/13/2005


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  A big ethical question.  Should "x" use "y" means to do "z" ends (or action) to "a" recipient or subject of the action?  ---  10/30/1997


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  Ethical questions.  (1) What am I going to do today?  (2) What am I going to with the rest of my life?  (3) What would I like to see happen to me, to my world, and to the entire world?  ---  10/30/1997


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  How to act toward self and others?  How to react to others?  ---  12/30/1992


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  Lifestyle questions.  Where live, what own, what do, who see, what learn, and why?  ---  12/30/1992


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  Like/dislike questions: what do I like (enjoy) and dislike?  ---  12/30/1992


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  Should questions: what should I do?  ---  12/30/1992


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  The big question in ethics is not "Should I do x?", but rather "Should I do x or y?".  ---  12/30/1992


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  The big question:  (1) What to accept?  What to put up with?  What to take?  Vs.  (2) What not to take, and why?  (3) What to do about it?  How to work for what you believe in, and against what you don't?  ---  04/30/1993


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  The big question.  What to do?  What to go for?  ---  06/01/1993


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  The question is, how to live knowing that many bad things could happen any minute?  That is, as a healthy, young, smart, athletic, handsome, visionary person in USA in the 1990's, how can I make the most of my life and all that I have?  How not to waste any of it (See ethics of waste.  See ethics of opportunity).  How rare am i?  How good am i?  Bad things that could happen include diseases, accidents, injury, death, mutilation, paralysis, retardation, brain damage, etc.  ---  01/02/1994


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  Two big ethical questions.  How to improve my life?  How to improve the world in general (everyone's lives)?  ---  12/30/1992


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  What do I need, and what should I have?  ---  12/30/1992


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  What is the purpose of life?  Are certain things better than others?  Why?  How tell actions, results?  What are the most important things in life, by perspective?  What are the most important questions in life?  Why are we here?  Why am I alive?  What do I live for?  What is the meaning of life?  What is the object of life?  Is life good or bad?  Why live?  Why die?  What to do?  What should we (all, or anyone or thing) do?  What to think about?  How act or behave?  How deal with x, and why?  How not deal with x, and why?  How deal best with x, and why?  How to think?  Why do I live?  What do I enjoy?  What do I not enjoy?  What are my goals?  What should my goals be?  What do people live for?  What are the most important things in life, by perspective?  What should I do, get, be, become, and experience?  How to live?  How to live best?  What do, when, where, how, how often, how long, why, and not?  ---  12/30/1992


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  What to do, in each moment, and in each situation?  Transitions from behavior to behavior?  ---  12/30/1992


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  Who dis, when, and why?  ---  12/30/1992


Philosophy, ethics, questions.  ---  Who is doing what to who, and why?  Who owes who what, and why?  Payback: reward or pay vs. punishment or revenge.  ---  12/30/1992




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