I just found a review of last night’s Trampoline Hall, where I was the second speaker:

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Growing old gracefully was ideal to the night’s second speaker as well. Timothy Comeau recalled his grandfathers fondness, in later life, for tea and crackers before bed and cited it as part of his personal vision of “the good life”. Comeau offered up personal conceptions of “the good life” as a replacement for religious, set in stone morality. He shied from any hierarchical ranking of morals or enforcement of a community standard. While his own ideal life, that of a vegan cyclist, seemed firmly at odds with the thrill seeking speed boaters he suggested as embodying a different sort of “good life”, Comeau preached only understanding and tolerance in the face of difference. When pressed, he did hint towards some vague Do No Harm principle. I couldn’t help feel that this approach would have to involve banning oil dependent thrill seeking and setting morality in stone anew, if a more environmental vision were to prevail. Yet I was made to feel that if I want to steal from the rich and give to the poor, begin a round of well planned political assassinations or force people to like good music that thats something wrong with me.

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Regardless, it was great fun listening to each speaker and participating in the Q&A’s that followed. The night even wrapped up early enough for me to come home and have some tea and crackers before bed.