tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post8774050012396686643..comments2023-06-15T11:59:39.572-04:00Comments on DYVERS: You're Not That Deep, Kid; No Matter What Your Momma Told You.Dyvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06032957275132817602noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-76883637006787525782016-04-18T07:23:47.153-04:002016-04-18T07:23:47.153-04:00That is okay. I come across as one of those even w...That is okay. I come across as one of those even when I am not trying to be, so If you can manage not to be, that is cool.benjamin wenhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15079920061062261246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-82567761330821148802016-04-18T07:22:04.891-04:002016-04-18T07:22:04.891-04:00That is okay. I come across as one of those even w...That is okay. I come across as one of those even when I am not trying to be, so If you can manage not to be, that is cool.benjamin wenhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15079920061062261246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-88606125006489059532016-04-15T16:27:07.192-04:002016-04-15T16:27:07.192-04:00I'm not ignoring your comment Benjamin; I'...I'm not ignoring your comment Benjamin; I'm just not in a place where I can talk about this right now without being a derisive jerk and you don't deserve that. So please accept my apologies for not furthering the dialogue at this time.Dyvershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06032957275132817602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-43793296185348344242016-04-13T04:25:23.914-04:002016-04-13T04:25:23.914-04:00Your describing a no win situation, and honestly,...Your describing a no win situation, and honestly, one that a property rights resolution comes out of even worse.<br /><br />For deciding that by property rights allows for a situation where a grinning psychopath can sit and watch a family of four die of exposure with moral certitude that he has done nothing immoral.<br /><br />One of the distinct advantages of utilitarianism is that it provides benjamin wenhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15079920061062261246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-80867007228822817922016-04-12T19:54:08.862-04:002016-04-12T19:54:08.862-04:00Just thinking of the John Stuart Mill version I le...Just thinking of the John Stuart Mill version I learned in college. Dyvershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06032957275132817602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-81553862934065580482016-04-12T19:52:21.284-04:002016-04-12T19:52:21.284-04:00Not so much.Not so much.Dyvershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06032957275132817602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-8100096353906685702016-04-12T19:52:05.604-04:002016-04-12T19:52:05.604-04:00None of the evidence I've ever seen in favor o...None of the evidence I've ever seen in favor of Utilitarianism has ever been convincing to me as it always fails when placed in the personal and not on the grand scale (i.e. this family of four has no home; you're a family of one, give yours to them).Dyvershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06032957275132817602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-50602690810249601262016-04-12T10:37:02.570-04:002016-04-12T10:37:02.570-04:001. There are some really great "message-based...1. There are some really great "message-based adventures" and games out in there. The work of Caleb Stokes specifically in regards to 'No Security' and 'Red Markets' demonstrate how cool it can be. Listen to basically any RPPR Actual Play podcast, where Caleb is running and you'll get an idea of what he is all abount. <br /><br />The best message based adventures, benjamin wenhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15079920061062261246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-10109674513502847552016-04-12T09:24:50.323-04:002016-04-12T09:24:50.323-04:001. I'm not familiar with this "radical tr...1. I'm not familiar with this "radical truth" idea but I guess I'd be skeptical of any "message" adventures being fun. Then again some people love the heck out of "Dogs in the vineyard" and that sort of thing which sound similar. But you'd have to be on board from the start. I'm reluctant these days to even present moral dilemmas unless the group is Mike Monacohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474135378521139178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-68004775396639839202016-04-11T18:11:15.059-04:002016-04-11T18:11:15.059-04:00Also: Rule Utilitarianism is most likely the best ...Also: Rule Utilitarianism is most likely the best descriptor of ethical process we have for how the Social Contract actually functions. You might (as Benjamin suggests) be thinking of something else? Doctor Futurityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02586371999646337047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-50459686332419103732016-04-11T18:06:21.953-04:002016-04-11T18:06:21.953-04:00Had to look up the concept of radical truth and I ...Had to look up the concept of radical truth and I agree it's less a philosophy and more a means of personal improvement....albeit one which makes more sense, I suspect, to those for whom a habituation of lies and self delusion are more common. <br /><br />I've always been partial toward the idea of injecting a campaign with a dose of existentialism (Sartre style) and in fact did so, with Doctor Futurityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02586371999646337047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-23892919271054216302016-04-11T18:01:46.517-04:002016-04-11T18:01:46.517-04:00There's a lot of bad DMs in the world but this...There's a lot of bad DMs in the world but this smells a little anti-intellectual and that always leaves a bad taste. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-43564637639408649242016-04-11T03:59:00.452-04:002016-04-11T03:59:00.452-04:00I'd suggest that the problem isn't that th...I'd suggest that the problem isn't that the game had an underpinning based onan exploration of a philosophical idea, but that it had as its base a form of quakery. ;) After all, radical honesty draws from a series of self-improvement books, not a serious academia. <br /><br />There are plenty of ethics frame words, philosophies and academic theories which can work briliantly as the basis benjamin wenhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15079920061062261246noreply@blogger.com