The Purpose of this Blog

This blog has been created in order to give some voice to my opinions, I mean, granted, this is a very tiny corner of the internet and its unlikely anyone will be reading. But in the event that someone does manage to find their way over here I hope to provide some views that are at best thought provoking, or, failing that, rationally defendable ramblings of something that is already known.

I am going to first try to articulate the moral theory known as desire utilitarianism, I hope I can describe it well enough that anyone reading will be able to understand the theory and be able to give critical advice on where I may have gone wrong and what I might have right. I would also like to go through it well enough that I would be able to republish it somewhere else as an actual moral framework that is useful and helpful at making important decisions.

I am also going to state from the outset that I do not believe in god(s), I am also going to state that this is an absurd question in the first place and that I have no intention of wasting my time explaining to other people why all the arguments in favor of god are, at best pointless, and otherwise contradictory or irrational. I consider this an argument settled. Hence the sub line of my blog title, if you cannot handle that fact, you have no business talking about moral theory.

So thats the introduction out of the way, Ill be back, hopefully sometime tomorrow, but as my profile indicates, I am a student and work may get in the way. If I am back tomorrow I shall begin my attempt at wading through moral theory and otherwise expect it sometime before the weekend.

Lataz
Ben.