h1 A FEW PHILOSOPHICAL? MORAL?
MISC.? QUESTIONS FOR YOU
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2024-08-12
I want you to throughly think through these
and not just give several sentence answers.
Really think through these, and consider a lot
of perspectives. This isn't a challenge of
speed.
Each one of these could be an entire article.
Not that you need to write one, but I want you
to actually think it through again and again.
1. Why is (or why isn't) the family
unit important?
2. Should children have an obligation
to their parents? Why or why not?
3. What is the meaning of life?
a. Should life even have a meaning?
Why or why not?
4. Should people with power do
everything they can change
the bad? Why or why not?
5. Similarly, if you had the
ability to go back in time,
is it moral for you to go
back and prevent tragedies?
a. Should and would you?
b. Is it a sign of strength
or a sign of weakness to
do so?
6. When faced with technologies
with immense impacts such as
time travel, should it be
available to the people?
a. If not, who gets to
moderate them? And can
we trust them?
b. Should we completely
destroy all time travel
technologies if they are
invented?
7. What is love?
a. Is it a social construct?
b. Could you live without it?
Do you really, really need
it?
8. Should we cure mortality? Why
or why not?
a. Without sickness and aging,
how long could you last?
9. Can you hold several opposing
beliefs on one topic?
a. If not, well why not?
b. If so, how so?
10. Who do you want to be? Really,
really want to be?
a. And how are you going to
get there?
11. Scared of the future? Why or
why not?
a. Or do you feel nostalgic?
And why?