86 How I Failed Ethics chords

[INTRO]
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[VERSE]
Though [G]majoring in Visual and [C]Environmental [D]Studies
And [C]minoring in History of [Am]Sci [D]
I [G]had to retake Ethics from my [C]Mennonite [D]professor
For [C]whom my skepti[D]cism didn't [G]fly

[INTERLUDE]
[Em] [Am] [D]

[VERSE]
The [G]first time I made mincemeat of the [C]standard propo[D]sitions
Es[C]tablishing a so-called moral [Am]science [D]
And [G]I declared morality an [C]offshoot of [D]aesthetics
And [C]got a failing [D]C for my [G]defiance

[INTERLUDE]
[Em] [Am] [D]

[VERSE]
So [G]next semester I back to [C]Divinity School [D]trotted
Pro[C]verbial tail not between my [Am]legs [D]
And [G]spent the whole course positing my [C]own ethical [D]system
While [C]other college [D]students emptied [G]kegs

[INTERLUDE]
[Em] [Am] [D]

[VERSE]
[G]Information ethics, cyber[C]ethics — both since [D]taken —
Said: [C]Maximize the information [Am]flow [D]
To[G]ward a hypothetical end [C]state in which the [D]cosmos
Con[C]sists entire[D]ly of our in[G]fo
And [G]at the highest level possi[C]ble, not only [D]data
But [C]data about data dot dot [Am]dot [D]
Or [G]life on top of life on top of [C]life, et ceter[D]a
[C]Profundity, my [D]mother'd say — I'd [G]not

[BRIDGE]
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[Em] [Bm] [Am] [C]
[Bm] [D]

[VERSE]
My [G]Mennonite professor did con[C]cede I'd done the [D]coursework
Al[C]though my system left him quite dis[Am]mayed [D]
De[G]pending, as it did, on neither [C]history nor [D]Jahweh
And [C]gave me, fina[D]lly, a passing [G]grade