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Ethics is Different and the Same (Synthesis)

We need to play the ethics game each day, We all have a duty to eschew wrongs, Biz, pol, art, and sci don't work the same way, We can choose to sing or not sing their songs. Biz as work *is* a universal rule, The rep eth of work applies to us all, To be a Rationalist star is cool, Likewise to be average, to fight one's fall. I'm committed to Rationalism, Ethics is yet another game with stars, I'm committed to average Joe-ism, To a rep ethics satisfied with pars. Seeking ethics is different and the same, To see how may help us in the great game.      

Ethics is the Same (Antithesis)

Ethics is the same as science and art, It is also the same as pol and biz, Rationalism is a good new start, Ethics can be more like physics than fizz. Create reasoned standards for doing good, Diff'rent from those for biz, pol, art, and sci, Those standards will *not* generate a should, They *will* ban some acts: "Don't murder!--here's why." Ethical stars of Rationalism, Will be flawed, like those in other domains, About their worth, there will be a schism, All of us will owe something to their pains. I need not, but will, donate a kidney, I prefer that to going to Sydney.

Ethics is Different (Thesis)

Virtue is different from science and art, Sainthood is negated by its pursuit, Don't try to win!  You need a faithful heart, Vic'try in ethics is false at the root. So--is reputational ethics bunk? No.  Rep eth is good for the av'rage Joe, May I be av'rage instead of a punk! May I be a citizen, not a schmo.   Biz, pol, and cult comp are for the elites, They help to create the stars that we need, Rep eth is for us peeps, used to defeats, It makes us kinder, pulls out evil's weed.   The virtue elite is above rep eth, I am not.  It gives me ethical breath.     

My Second Book

Critical Game Theory: Humanistic and Radical Alternatives to the Mainstream

My First Book

Why Business Ethics Matters: Answers from a New Game Theory Model

The Enlightenment

Is the Enlightenment still going on? No.  It's dead, Jim.  It has long been over, Madison was a queen.  I am a pawn, I'm a dork.  He was a four-leaf clover. It's not that I'm dumber, though I might be, It's that his time was war, while mine is peace, In my time we all love democracy, In his it was a pig coated in grease. Nobody cares about my calls for change, Back then, they listened to Locke and to him, The nation-state is our home on the range, Then, democracy was a dream, a whim. Do I want our Endarkenment to end? Dunno!  Where does the arc of justice bend?

The 4:07 NY/4:24 NWK Summit Local

I take this train 'cuz they don't ask for tix, From Newark it gets me home right at five, I'm complicit in someone's idle tricks, The train's crowded.  But it's free.  I'll survive. I'm taking it from New York-Penn today, Partly in order to solve a myst'ry, Here's where the curtain rises on the play, I want to explain this train's odd hist'ry. We are cancelled!  Mechanical trouble... Hot and grumbling, we process to Track Two, The new train's packed, filled with human rubble, I know I'll ride free.  I don't feel so blue. Nancy Drew me says the free train's a swing     train for scheduling.  Its glitch might be fake, That might not be a completely bad thing, It might be for var'ious stakeholders' sake. I wonder.  Is this train is bound for glory? Dunno!  It's part of a glor'ious story.