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02/19/2003: "Philosophy crap"
Well, I finally went to Philosophy for the first time in a month, and it royally pissed me off. The prof was discussing this article written by a guy who thinks we need to get rid of plea bargaining and make every single case go to trial. Both the prof and the guy who wrote the article made me nearly scream, because they were so utterly ignorant of WHY we use plea bargaining and HOW the criminal justice system works. The prof was going on about how mass murderers are getting off with probation because they plead guilty to a misdemeanor, and how hundreds and thousands of innocent people are pleading guilty to lesser offenses because they don't think they can prove they're innocent in a trial. God, the largest jails in the country already have people sitting in them for a year awaiting trial, could you imagine what would happen if every single case had to go to trial? I'd leave the country.
Anyone see the end of the Bachelorette? I avoid chick flicks to stay away from that sappy romance stuff, I don't need it creeping into my television too. All that crap about, "You are my heart and my soul and you are the man I've been dreaming of since I was a little girl." Honestly now, let's be realistic. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is much more realistic. Your first love? Turns evil and kills people, and then you have to send him to hell. Your college boyfriend? Gets his thrills by letting a vampire woman suck on him and then flies off to South America in a helicopter and marries to someone else.
Not looking forward to this being the last season of that show. *sighs*
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Give your philosophy instructor some time to prove to you, that he doesn't always opinionate from his ass, for he _feels_ empowered by virtue of his profession to spew his hippy-stink psychobabble upon the mindless droids in your class.dot, Wednesday, February 19th
Take in consideration that it is philosophy class- things just don't make sense when you read or try to study philosophers. After taking more than one class on philosophy, I certainly understand that the people teaching the class (minus my ethics prof who was out of the ordinary awesome) as well as the people writing the readings we have to do are just way out of logic theory. Look at Skinner, for instance- is his probable idea for his assumed society better than Marx or Plato? They have some remote logic behind them, but to actually work in the real world- forget it.Shannon, Thursday, February 20th