Woody Allen is Warped
So I watched a Woody Allen film last night called Match Point. And I have to say that Woody Allen has a completely twisted view of the world. I won't spoil the movie for you, but the point can be boiled down to the opening scene, in which a tennis ball hits the net and bounces straight up then the frame freezes. There's some platitudinous monologue about which way the ball is going to go and how everything is luck. Then the main character is the Neitzchean ubermench character who does whatever need be to remain on top - including murdering a pregnant mistress. So the point of all this? Everything is permissible and you have to be the strongest, but everything also comes down to luck. Patty, help me out here. Are these two tenets philosophically compatible? Granted, they're both stupid anyway. Great movie though. Watch it. Scarlette Johansen, I would like to have your children. I hope my mom doesn't read this.
Nords
Nords

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Jordan David,
So it's come to this, my firstborn busying himself watching smut when he would be better served preparing for a Bible Drill. All my love,
Glasses On!
Your mother
They seem compatible to me, Nords. There's such a thing as moral luck, though, and it is a bastard of a hard problem. Read about it here, if you'd like:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-luck/
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