86 How I Failed Ethics chords by The Magnetic Fields

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Verse:
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Though majoring in Visual and Environmental Studies
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And minoring in History of Sci
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I had to retake Ethics from my Mennonite professor
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For whom my skepticism didn't fly


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Verse:
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The first time I made mincemeat of the standard propositions
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Establishing a so-called moral science
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And I declared morality an offshoot of aesthetics
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And got a failing C majorC for my defiance


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Verse:
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So next semester I back to Divinity School trotted
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Proverbial tail not between my legs
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And spent the whole course positing my own ethical system
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While other college students emptied kegs


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Verse:
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Information ethics, cyberethics — both since taken —
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Said: Maximize the information flow
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Toward a hypothetical end state in which the cosmos
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Consists entirely of our info
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And at the highest level possible, not only data
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But data about data dot dot dot
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Or life on top of life on top of life, et cetera
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Profundity, my mother'd say — I'd not


Bridge:
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Verse:
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My Mennonite professor did concede I'd done the coursework
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Although my system left him quite dismayed
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Depending, as it did, on neither history nor Jahweh
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And gave me, finally, a passing grade