What are your premises for your life? Have you ever thought of your philosophical base in concrete terms? What principles do you uphold and to which do you just pay lip-service? Were your premises developed arbitrarily or with reason?
As a starting point, I'll offer you some of my philosophical premises: the initiation of force is always wrong, live without moral contradictions, always seek out truth, think for yourself, either do something right or don't do it at all, publicly stand up for what you believe in, anything worth anything is earned (costs something), do unto others as you would have them do unto you, all values are traded, human progress increases as government coercion, intervention, and control decreases, forgive people who make mistakes if they honestly attempt to correct them, always use reason, misrepresenting or changing the meaning of words indicates a corrupt morality, always understand your priorities, and never sacrifice your judgment for your gut-feeling. With which of my premises do you agree or disagree?
DISCUSS!
Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on May 1, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=186
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