Many ethicists agree with veganism, but the proportion of practising ethicists is smaller. Why is it that people know what is ethically right but fail to practise it?
29.06.2025 06:29 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@shobota15.bsky.social
2024.10 The website ‘Reading Ethics in English’ is up at https://ethics15.com/ Philosophy (now ‘Critique of Pure Reason’... I don't understand it), music (mainly pre-Bach), art (Romanesque architecture), film (art-related), Go (board game. Amateur 7-dan. )
Many ethicists agree with veganism, but the proportion of practising ethicists is smaller. Why is it that people know what is ethically right but fail to practise it?
29.06.2025 06:29 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don't know why. I like to listen to young people talk incessantly, vaguely wondering if I could have lived my life like hers.
01.06.2025 21:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Of course, our generations are too different and our ideas do not coincide with theirs, but I still like to listen to them.
01.06.2025 21:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I like to meet young people and ask them about their lives. To be clear, they don't ask me about me, I ask them.
01.06.2025 21:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0statue in Kamakura period
23.05.2025 08:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Ukiyoe Art
23.05.2025 06:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tokyo University of Arts
23.05.2025 06:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today is the anniversary of the death of my chihuahua, Chico, who died four years ago at the age of 10. I bought flowers and displayed them with her picture. I will never forget it.
05.05.2025 14:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is not so much that the other person is changing, but that I am changing. In this light, there is no such thing as unchanging love or unchanging research themes. There is only love and research themes that are constantly renewed.
30.04.2025 05:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When you think about it, you don't have to force yourself to keep your current relationships in good shape, and there is nothing that you absolutely have to buy, nothing that you have to buy. Everything changes.
30.04.2025 05:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm sorting through my Gmail from 10 years ago. I am amazed at how much has changed: the people I email, the items I purchase, the subs I subscribe to.
30.04.2025 05:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I used to think that the Beatles' early days were "music that makes girls squeal" and that their music started to deepen around the time of "Rubber Soul," but after listening to it again in high-resolution, I was very wrong.
29.04.2025 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think Japan has been ruined since Japanese people started to be happy with something like Starbucks' "something Frappuccino". (I am not saying that Starbucks is bad.)
23.04.2025 05:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just as reaching the drinking age does not make one an adult in spirit, turning 50 does not make one wiser by experience.
21.04.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tokyu Denentoshi Line, with Shibuya at the head of the list, has no decent bookstores.
19.04.2025 11:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No matter how ethically correct an activity may seem, if you feel something is not right, you should cherish that feeling. Because it is not right for you.
17.04.2025 08:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today I visited my mother's grave and visited my father-in-law in the hospital. In the past, I used to think visiting graves was foolish, but lately I'm starting to feel that meaningless things have meaning. On the way home, I went to Takano Fruit Parlor.
16.04.2025 07:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I can sleep soundly on days when my dog sleeps with me.
16.04.2025 00:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0CDs that come with old language books often have storage problems and are often unreadable. Therefore, I decided to import all of them into our PC with a media player.
13.04.2025 22:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I had my dog turned into a human image by ChatGPT.
10.04.2025 08:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Tama-Plaza in Yokohama
08.04.2025 14:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The cherry blossom season in Japan is almost over!
08.04.2025 08:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At the age of 66 years and 8 months, I decided to take up German. According to Masaru Sato, there is no way I will be able to master the language if I start at an old age, but it would be frustrating to give up from the very beginning. I will report my progress or setbacks here in the future.
06.04.2025 12:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0America was a country that sold dreams, even fictional ones.
05.04.2025 13:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anger" really ruins everything, doesn't it?
03.04.2025 23:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If I became a politician (which I won't, lol), I would abolish walking phones, I would not bow down to the US, and I would ration rice.
02.04.2025 23:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the new year, there are a lot of strangers, walking around in a hurry, everyone is strangely high-strung, and that makes me weary.
01.04.2025 08:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Before it's April Fool's Day, let me say. Someday something good will happen to you."
31.03.2025 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cherry blossoms are one step short of full bloom.
30.03.2025 07:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We spent a relaxing time at home. I am amazed that my wife goes along with someone as selfish and self-indulgent as I am. I would like to express my gratitude in secret here.
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