All the Numbers Between "0" and "1", Morality, and 2008

The possibilities are infinite. No matter how far you carry out a number between zero and one, all that needs to be added is another number at the end. I will be limiting the possibilities for this discussion to one thousand by truncating it at the thousandth position. However, by doing so, I will be rounding up numbers greater than 5 in the ten-thousandth position and rounding down all numbers ending in 5 or less in the ten-thousandth position. 

That doesn't mean much, but it may when you must decide what is the moral thing to do. It means that something which is .4996 moral and something else that is .5005 moral, will both round out to .500 moral. Even that doesn't mean much because we will all see what is moral differently than how others may see it, and we will each value morality differently when making decisions. For example, a narcissist will value morality less than they value ego and instant gratification. Even within the group categorized as narcissists, the value placed on morality will be weighted differently between members of the group. 

Getting Tough on Crime: When Will We Learn?

I was recently sent an invitation on Facebook to support a cause. The cause was to demand that people convicted of molesting children be given mandatory sentences of life in prison, and for people convicted of killing children to be sentenced to death. The request to join this cause reminded me of several debates on bulletin boards about similar topics.

I’m not sure that anyone supports child molestation except, possibly, child molesters. However, what to do to them always seemed to propel into what I call "bar talk" through which, it seemed, whoever could come up with the cruelest punishment must certainly have the largest penis. There were proposals ranging from dismemberment all the way to stoning them to death.