[Newspoetry] The Utility Theory of Man

[DL Emerick]

Man is just a way for other men to get what they want.
 
Democrats Grill Mukasey
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013108M.shtml
Manu Raju, of The Hill, reports: "Attorney General Mukasey told Sen. Joseph
Biden (D-Del.) that the method by which to measure when a tough
interrogation technique is needed should fall under a
'shocks-the-conscience' standard. That standard essentially is a 'balancing
test' between the 'heinousness of doing it, the cruelty of doing it' versus
the value of the information the detainee might divulge. 'You're the first
person I've ever heard say what you just said,' Biden said. 'Matter of fact,
it shocks my conscience.'"
 
The liberal Kant said:
 
*  
"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as
means to your end."
"Do what is right, though the world may perish."
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." 
"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others.
In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
*  "May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become
universal law."
*  "Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason." 
- Immanuel Kant
*  "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." 
- Immanuel Kant
*  "Seek not the favor of the multitude;it is seldom got by honest and
lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but
weigh them."
*  "Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within
me."
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