Some philosophers, your humble narrator occasionally included, get irritated when people, especially intro ethics students, focus on what we take to be irrelevant details of what are meant to be serious, if somewhat improbably grisly, examples. But really we’re not upset about the lack of philosophical sophistication our students shown, just about how stylishlessly they complain. If all our intro ethics students were like “Fafnir and Giblets”:http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2004_07_11_fafblog_archive.html#108973435683602830 I can’t imagine we’d ever be so irritated.

(Warning to those who like to drink and blogsurf. Don’t click that link while consuming liquids. Especially milk. Because there’s a code-turquoise-level chance of said liquid ending up being snorted out of your nose. And I think I speak from experience when I say that that’s just embarrassing. Especially if it’s milk. And you have to explain it to the tech staff when you ask for a new keyboard. For the second time that week.)