Moral Obligation

what would u say? apart from parents, i really do not think we owe anything to anybody else.

Now that i've finished discussing the topic, let us move onto the fun stuff. you know what my dream life is? it's the life of a hero of a cyberpunk novel. the world at your fingertips, life is a long unending night, parties going on every other night, the day flits by like a filmy screen of dazed sleep, booze and fags at your disposal, slavering away at your terminal with a shot-induced clarity, breaking and making codes, creating cyber-fortresses, finding faults with other's, hacking into your own system to check for faults, man! i already feel like that lead role in Swordfish! imagine this. you've created a perfect cyberworld, a matrix where there is no worry. would you be brave enough to hook urself into it?

well, anyway, that's one of the possiblities. i wouldn't mind being batman either, but only if i also get to have the batcave, batgirl(s), batplane, and of course batmobile goes without saying. i wouldn't mind not having a robin though.

i picture you smiling condescendingly at this foolish outpour of childish fantasies from a yet immature adult. but, i tell you, dreams are what makes the world go round. atleast, definitely in my head.

all this is just mindless gibberish, so let's talk some math.

why did set theory come about? i say it has the same root, as the question why does wine come in so many varieties, or the question why is language necessary. see the connection? probably won't, even after i'm done, but just bear with me. i say man has this need to understand everything. atleast certain individuals did. so they said, let's give names to everything, so that i can understand what you are talking about. so they gave names to everything, and that's how language came about.
but like i said somewhere else, calling a chair a chair is pretty mundane, though pragmatic. i mean i'd love nothing more than calling a chair a chair, but certain people would not agree. they would say "hey, i agree that this object is a chair. but it is more than a chair. it was crafted 200 years ago, with so and so wood, by so and so great artist, so please give it due respect, and call it an 18th century Chippendale. It's worth more than you earn in a whole year."
you see, calling a chair a chair was not enough. they had to give it some fanciful name just so that everyone who knows will immediately recognise all the craft that went into it, and those who do not know it are left with a sense of awe and respect for something that is esoteric to their rather base tastes. it's the need to do something out of the ordinary, it's the need to break away from routine, it's the need to be creative. also, once you do something creative, you would want to label it as something special, so that people will know it has something special (even though they do not see what is special in it). so there arises the need for classification, labelling, segregation and building boundaries around things. that's the same need that gave rise to sets. by putting elements in sets, you are saying "you belong here, you element!" and then you take subsets and say okay all of you are special. and then you take another subset and say okay all of you are worthy. and then another subset says you are invaluable! extremely important. so you see, if that need for segregation was absent, we wouldn't be able to appreciate art. but neither would we have to study Set Theory! so you see, arts and science have the same root.

am i cool or what!?!