The disappearance of Pinocchio as an accessible figure is directly related to the moral judgment placed upon him as an animated figure for children who we find in the midst of very adult antics in this joke. Ethical philosophy, more specifically emotivism, says that moral judgments are neither true nor false; they are projections of our own disapproval of an action or the individual performing a particular action. Pinocchio, a wooden puppet who wants nothing more than to be a real boy, starts off with this very innocent and humble desire. We see that as he was granted his wish, his desires became a bit less innocent, but in the end Pinocchio ends up alone because he was, perhaps, too much like a real boy. The reason this cyclical story ( the original and the added information of the joke) is funny and not terribly sad is because people can relate to Pinocchio on a human level, but the thought of a pure, animated figure doing such sexual things is absurd. Pinocchio can get away with his actions with a laugh because he is not real, if this story were about little Johnny it wouldn't be funny at all, because people would immediately be judging him for being so 'immoral'.
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Interesting fact: My spell check in word showed that emotivism' (as found in Cathcart and Klein's Glossary) was not spelled correctly..the first option to change: 'eroticism'..
I thought it was appropriately funny
you need to scan this properly...
the photography is not working...
you need to get away from the black backgrounds...and i dont think you should write the joke in the frame...this maybe said to others too...
the scanner will pick up the sandpaper texture
After seeing the post on the blog i agree about the black background and small white text. The issue with the scanner is that it is too small for the size of the diagram, but i will try to scan it in segments and photoshop it back together.
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