October 19th, 2011

Our club size has diminished to five people :(. We spent some time thinking of ways to increase participation, but didn't ultimately make any goals.

Started to debate about topics; finished up definition of 'Fairness' from last week, and branched off into talking about benefits people are born into (wealth, status) which others might not have. "Is it moral to inherit the consequences of your parents?"

Touched on the topic of morality again, but we weren't able to define it. We ended by talking about our opinions on YAF and the 'propoganda' they put up and how we feel about it.

Sorry for no blog posts! Gov test retake and a COPS meeting, but I should be good now!

September 28th Meeting

We started off by rereading the story from last week about the cheating wife who was stranded at the same bridge with the serial killer and all agreed that the Serial Killer was at fault for the woman's murder. After trying to find a new topic and ending up with confusion, we decided to start a small list for Philosophy club:

• The first rule of Philosophy club is "Don't talk about Philosophy Club".
• Only one person talks at a time

Mr. Amore suggested a philosophy sphere to be held by the one designated to talk at the time, and we took up a talking stick that didn't really get implemented.

When Ron came back, we went around the room with a list of topic for future meetings, and voted on the topic for today's meeting. Drug morality won (out of a 4 way tie) which led to questions detailing it:

• What were we trying to answer?
• What constitutes a drug?

While trying to narrow these down and branching off onto other topics (alcohol and prohibition, drug searches at school, morality versus safety), we encountered other questions:

• What is moral? Is it the same as right and wrong? Relative to people? Societies?
• What is absolute right or wrong in the universe?

I had to leave after that, but comment on what I missed and what's for next week