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		<title>Selfish moral arguments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J5</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.j5live.com/?p=546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my biggest pet peeves is this argument:
You&#8217;ve done *****************  this much &#8220;good&#8221; so you are obligated to do more (and to my benefit first).  If you don&#8217;t do so the world will implode.
I especially hate it  when the person making that argument benefits from that good but doesn&#8217;t think they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of my biggest pet peeves is this argument:</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve done *****************  this much &#8220;good&#8221; so you are obligated to do more (and to my benefit first).  If you don&#8217;t do so the world will implode.</p>
<p>I especially hate it  when the person making that argument benefits from that good but doesn&#8217;t think they should contribute to it.</p>
<p>I do however agree with this argument:</p>
<p>You have done ******************* this much &#8220;good&#8221; and as a result have benefited from that good on average more than others, you have an obligation to keep putting in as much as you can.  I am a beneficiary of your good and will try to add to it but I may lack the ability to contribute in any meaningful way.</p>
<p>On the philosophical side:</p>
<p>Is it more moral to get paid for the above arguments&#8217; &#8220;good&#8221;, which frees you up to do more of the &#8220;good&#8221; or to do something else for a living with results being the scope of your &#8220;good&#8221; contributions are less than they would have been?</p>
<p>Those questions I don&#8217;t think there is a real answer to.</p>
<p>And no Spot, I&#8217;m not going to suddenly quit, I just sometimes wonder why I chose to be a public free software developer when it means I have to deal with anonymous idiots or break my own moral code on censorship.  </p>
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		<title>Article on the Peru OLPC laptop deployment</title>
		<link>http://www.j5live.com/2007/12/24/article-on-the-peru-olpc-laptop-deployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J5</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a nice article to read over the holidays.  It really showcases what the OLPC project is all about.
[read this post in: ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-laptop_webdec22,1,6878223.story">Here is a nice article to read</a> over the holidays.  It really showcases what the OLPC project is all about.</p>
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		<title>I joined ONE today</title>
		<link>http://www.j5live.com/2007/06/12/i-joined-one-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J5</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONE is a campaign to make poverty history.  I found out about it through a news story on the CNN.  It is a nice complement to the work I do at OLPC as it focuses on some of the more basic needs outlined by the UN Millennium Goals.  What I liked about [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.one.org/">ONE</a> is a campaign to make poverty history.  I found out about it through <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/11/nh.anti.poverty.ap/index.html">a news story on the CNN</a>.  It is a nice complement to the work I do at <a href="http://laptop.org">OLPC</a> as it focuses on some of the more basic needs outlined by the <a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/">UN Millennium Goals</a>.  What I liked about this particular effort is it is bipartisan, having picked up members from all over the political spectrum.  Their <a href="http://www.onevote08.org/">One Vote &#8216;08</a> initiative is geared towards putting political pressure on all the US candidates towards focusing policy into trying to solve the issues of world poverty.  This is a much better strategy than backing one horse in the race and brings change through unity and not division.  I&#8217;ve <a href="http://action.one.org/ActionSignup.html">signed the declaration</a>, <a href="http://www.one.org/facebook">joined the facebook group</a>, and <a href="http://action.one.org/contact/volunteer.jsp">offered to help</a> and am now seeing if there are any like minds who would like to do the same.</p>
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