Contemporary Moral Issues

Most people don't seem to put much thought into what they think. Hmmm.... Sounds strange, but it's true. You never really have an opinion on something until you sit down and think about it. You might have some notions of an opinion, but not a working theory. It seems that the best way to think about things is to either talk about them with someone else, read about them in someone else's writing, or write about it yourself. I like to discuss things with people, but I never seem to be able to work out an entire "thought" without sitting down and writing about it. I've never had an excessive amount of patience for reading other peoples' philosophical writings. For the most part, I like to figure out what they're trying to say, but the act of reading usually puts me to sleep. There seems to be something about reading philosophy that hits me like a pound of turkey dinner. Damn triptophane.

Because of this inability to read through actual philosophy books, I never seem to get much more o...