lol, yes, that's exactly what happens when I try to think through examples. I fall off the comma cliff. I don't know what I would have concluded when I wrote that... but thinking now, I have trouble thinking of writers that I feel get really close to "truth." I'm almost tempted to say Heller in Catch-22, and McCarthy in The Crossing... but it's hard to say. I guess I'm not sure what the truth looks like. Is it like child pornography, you know, I can't define it but I know it when I see it? You'd probably disagree with that.

I actually like the people in my poli sci class too. There was a disturbing side-comment today about Japanese civilians deserving to be atomic-bombed... but it's actually a fairly participatory, earnest class. So does that mean what's useful in understanding ethics is where participants in the discussion are coming from in terms of background?