virus: cool
Nathaniel Hall (natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET)
Sun, 02 Aug 1998 08:59:43 -0600
Bob Hartwig wrote:
>
> > Cry in vain as you might that you are not
> >making any such judgments you can't get around it. To say something is
> >"cool" for example is a moral judgment.
> >
>
> I think it could just as easily be considered an aesthetic judgement. To
> say that something is cool, and that it makes you a good person, would be a
> moral judgement.
If a mad man went into a McDonalds and sprayed the dinners with bullets,
would you say "cool" ? I contend that word is generally used to denote
"good" things. It certainly has an aesthetic element in it. That I will
grant you.
Nate