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[tinyfood]

Name: Entrapta
Date: oct 16th
Format: text

HELLO! I WANT TO COLLECT SOME DATA.

IF YOU HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT ETHICS, PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1] ARE THERE ACTIONS YOU CONSIDER UNACCEPTABLE REGARDLESS OF CONTEXT? IF SO, PLEASE PROVIDE EXAMPLES

2] ARE THERE SOME MITIGATING CONTEXTS THAT RENDER OTHERWISE UNACCEPTABLE ACTIONS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU? IF SO, PLEASE PROVIDE EXAMPLES

3] IF A PERSON HAS PERFORMED AN UNACCEPTABLE ACTION, WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER AN APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT?

THANKS! 8)

Comments

[manlet]

A cut-and-dry definition, one you can't argue with. Interesting. I've a bone to pick with the word "aesthetic." Beauty is not the purpose of art, nor is it the artist's duty to portray beauty.

Here is my definition of it: an artist is one who observes. Are you a scientist, by any chance?

[tinyfood]

I OBSERVE PLENTY OF STUFF AND I'M DEFINITELY NOT AN ARTIST! I AM A SCIENTIST, LIKE YOU SAID.

I DIDN'T JUST MEAN BEAUTY, THOUGH. WHEN I SAID 'AESTHETIC' I MEANT THAT THE IMPORTANT PART OF ART IS HOW IT LOOKS, INSTEAD OF ITS FUNCTION.

[manlet]

Both your points are taken. But isn't science, too, an art? The line between mysticism and progress is thin, and what you create is a reflection of what you deem to be of worth.

In any case, here is my point. As a scientist, you know that the best observer when it comes to practical data is one outside of the phenomenon. So it is with artists. We create a replica of what we believe is the human soul. Such a creature thrives in being an outsider, and is often at odds with what human society accepts.

[tinyfood]

HMM. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OBSERVING AND UNDERSTANDING, THOUGH. DOESN'T BEING AN OUTSIDER MAKE IT HARDER TO UNDERSTAND PEOPLE?

[manlet]

But of course. That is why those who straddle the line between outsider and human are ideal observers, in my opinion.

[tinyfood]

SO BY THAT LOGIC WOULDN'T A GOOD ARTIST BE SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTOOD THAT STUFF?

[manlet]

The straddling or being human?

[Andersen can you not make jokes like this.]

[tinyfood]

BEING HUMAN

[ it's fine, she hasn't noticed it's supposed to be a joke ]

[manlet]

Ideally? Yes. But they must understand human nature in a fashion that ironically separates them from their fellow man.