You're Being Tortured In The Morning

There is no need for much of a preamble here, except to say this activity deals with some of the issues thrown up by British philosopher, Bernard Williams's journal article "The Self and the Future", which first appeared in The Philosophical Review in April 1970.

The other thing to say is that you should read the instructions on the next page quite carefully. You'll be able to complete the activity if you don't, but the conclusions likely won't be valid.

Really Deep Thought

The most dangerous thing to do today is to be against torture, but to accept it as a legitimate topic of debate. This is the horror: that some topics that should simply be out of discussion are now becoming the terrain of legitimate discussion.
--Slavoj Zizek.