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      <image:title>Articles - A Last Farewell to 2021 — Introduction to Issue 1: Morality</image:title>
      <image:caption>2021 has been a rough year. We could go on talking about our lives “amid these unprecedented times”, but I’ll spare you the details since you were there too. It was bad. Really bad. Still, this year wasn’t a complete dud. There were small moments of happiness, even if they were surrounded by days upon days of nothingness. And maybe that’s something that will never change. Maybe it’s inevitable that the boring days will go on to become boring weeks and boring months. That the good days will show up less and less often. But we can still try to enjoy the good days when they come. And at least, that’s what I’m telling myself as I write this introduction at 7:54 PM on the 31st of December, 2021. Today is a good day (the first in a while), and that’s because I can introduce you to the first issue of Conundrum. It’s rough around the edges. It’s pretty empty. But it’s done. We’ve collected some articles our members have written about one central theme: Morality. We each took the theme in different ways. One of us wrote about morality in the context of religion, and discussed the “Problem of Evil”, the perennial question as to how God can exist in a clearly sinful world. That writer decided to spin that question on its head, and used the Problem of Evil to prove God’s existence. Another of us took the lens of different philosophers, providing different answers to the questions that bring many people to philosophy in the first place: "Is what I’m doing right? How can I make the world better than how I found it?” One article covered Psychological Egoism, the idea that all our actions and motivations, no matter how good they seem, are really motivated by our own pure self-interest. Finally, our last article discusses how we can create morality without believing in morals in the first place. These are a wide range of topics, held together only by a loose theme of morality. So take a look at whichever ones you find interesting. If you enjoy it, read another one. If you don’t, then I’d like to apologize for wasting your time. But I’d also ask that, if you find our arguments weak or the topic uninteresting, that you help us fix that. You don’t have to know much about the history of philosophy to have thoughts about important questions. This journal is meant to be an introduction, both for readers and writers, to understanding the field of philosophy, and the many questions and (fewer) answers that it contains. So if you’re interested, check out the About page on our website, and think about joining the team. In the meantime, enjoy our first ever issue of Conundrum! - Jake</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>(AKA Ragnar Redbeard) “If one man smite you on the cheek, / Don’t turn the other, soft and meek, / But smash him back, and lay him low. / War for war, and blow for blow” Arthur Desmond, also known by his pen name of Ragnar Redbeard, was a bit peculiar. For most of his life, he worked as a leftist politician and activist in New Zealand and Australia, and then he wrote Might is Right, a book that lays out Social Darwinist and elitist values such as “Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong." It might have been a piece of satire, but it has become his philosophical legacy. According to the book, the way to be moral is to be strong. Only the strong conquerors of the world have human rights. If you are weak and let others walk over you, you will and should die. You cannot be weak or promote weakness. If you do, the world will destroy you. This includes spreading “weak” religious views, which would be any beliefs advocating “turning the other cheek” or otherwise allowing yourself to be below others. Desmond attacked Christianity and Judaism for this reason.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness” Immanuel Kant is so influential in ethics that he lends his name to Kantian ethics. His ethical ideology centers around the idea of what’s called a Categorical Imperative. Essentially, there are universal moral principles that we should live by. Any action that would become destructive when universalized is immoral. To clarify through an example, you might be considering stealing a bag of chips from a multi-million dollar superstore. We've all been in that situation. You think, “I will gain lots of pleasure from stealing, as this is my favorite type of chip, and the corporation won’t be hurt at all because it’s one of millions that they sell.” Kant would disapprove. He would ask you to consider a world where everyone stole a bag of chips. The world would be mayhem, and that action would not seem harmless anymore. This is how you can know that it is immoral. By going through all actions like this and weeding out the destructive ones, we can determine what universal moral principles we must hold to.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A person who spends their money on luxury goods is an egoist, because they only want to increase their personal pleasure. A person who buys books and works out is an egoist, because they want to improve their lives and make themselves happier. A person who spends their money on gifts for friends and family is also an egoist, because by giving a gift they expect to receive gifts in return, increasing their pleasure. A person who donates their time and money to charities is an egoist, because they want to show off their wealth to others, thereby increasing their own pleasure.  A person who donates anonymously is still an egoist, because helping the community makes them happy, and they only want to do things that make them happy.</image:caption>
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