Wednesday, September 28, 2011

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