A long time ago I worked for a Porn company. As someone who grew up orthodox Jew and turned secular later in life, I had to consciously reorient my moral compass regularly; When a recruiter for that company contacted me I suspended my knee jerked “no” reaction and asked myself “why?” - it’s not like I hadn’t watched porn occasionally (I later learned to avoid it, it’s basically sexual junk food), so what’s my problem supporting its creation? And if I do have a problem with it, where do I draw the line? participating in a movie was an obvious “no”, but would I work for a company that had Porn companies as clients? pragmatically and morally it was an obvious “yes” for me - somewhere between these were my boundaries. When you do these kind of mind exercises, it soon becomes clear that practical applied morality (as opposed to abstract ideological morality) is very fluid. I ended up realizing I don’t view porn as morally problematic but rather as aesthetically problematic, so as long as my particular job was interesting and didn’t involve watching too much junk I was ok with it.
Random thoughts mostly (and indication I’ve got too much free time on my hands 🤷). This isn’t one of those high cadence blogs and it will probably get weirder over time.