it can't be helped. on days like this, i am in love with the rain. it feels like an entirely different dimension when you abandon the umbrella and simply walk around in drenched clothing.

.... lol gangsta stutterer... toocute ><

on another note, interesting passage from Lars Ericsson's article Charges Against Prostitution (1980).

"When Hume wrote his essay Of Suicide, suicide was primarily a religious and theological matter. Suicide was a horrendous crime and an intolerable evil; a cardinal sin. So if there were any disputes between religion and philosophy about suicide they were likely to have to do with such intricate questions as, Where exactly in hell would you end up? For how long would you have to burn? etc. To venture to suggest that perhaps suicide was not all that bad after all was unthinkable. And to have the nerve to suggest that perhaps suicide could represent a rational response to an unbearable life-situation was not only unthinkable but tantamount to heresy. Nevertheless, it was something to this effect that Hume had the courage to say in his essay. What Hume did was to question what at the time appeared as an unshakable postulate. The evil of suicide was not a matter for discussion but the Archimedean point from which all discussion took off. To make us conscious of such alleged Archimedean points and to question them has always been an important philosophical task. In moral philosophy this amounts to the task of subjecting the canons of conventional morality to critical scrutiny.

"If we return to our own time and to prostitution, we shall find that the alleged Archimedean point from which practically all discussion of harlotry takes off is the view that prostitution is undesirable. And on this presupposition, the crucial issues become scientific and political, not philosophical. Science is called in to explain the undesirable phenomenon and to invent a cure to be put in the hands of the politicians. And moralists of all shades and colors act as their cheerleaders. The philosophical contributions have mainly consisted of the discussion of such derivative issues such as, Does society have the right to pass judgment at all on matters of sexual morals? and, If so, does it also have the right to use the weapon of the law to enforce what it considers to be sexual immorality?"