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Since I'll be offline all day and feel like having some good comments to come back to:

Do people have intrinsic worth as human beings? What is the difference between intrinsic worth and value within a society?

Are there intrinsic rights, or only those granted by society?

Does truthful gossip (that is, passing on true information about someone, rather than making up or passing on fictitious stories) form a positive or negative contribution to human society? How and why? Under what circumstances? Why does truthful gossip so often turn 'bad' somewhere along the chain and venture into the area of untruth?

Will the landlord recharge the electric meter by the time I get home today? It's looking a little low. I can laptop for a bit with no electricity but I can't interweb, because something has to run the router. EDIT: it seems to have gone over into emergency credit or something.

PLN for today:
-tidy up a bit here, because it is currently showing the effects of three days of rehearsal and running around with not much downtime or sorting out time
-go have horn lesson, meeting with CDP
-go to Isle of Cats, arriving about 13.15, do lots of big sorting and tidying
-come back here at some point; I'm going to aim for about 21.30 because I've had so many late nights recently.

The hardest thing? Moving the keyboard from the loft to the living room so that when someone comes to pick it up at 7pm they don't have to navigate (or even see) the rest of the house. This needs two strong people, because the keyboard is heavy. Once upon a time I could have been one of those people but this is no longer the case.

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Gossip is an integral part of society structure; its not just how reputations appear and evolve but a big group identity building thing, and sort of a social location identifier/trust symbol, and a sort of information currency. I mean gossip in the sense of "information about people you obtain from people" rather than "smuggled private incriminating rumours". I do not think all features of the universe are classifiable into good and bad - handled badly it can cause a lot of harm.