{"id":200,"date":"2007-10-14T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=200"},"modified":"2022-06-10T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:40:17","slug":"200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Derek Parfit"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Why shouldn\u2019t I eat toothpaste? It\u2019s a free world. Why shouldn\u2019t I chew my toenails? I happen to have trodden in some honey. Why shouldn\u2019t I prance across central park with delicate sideways leaps? I know what your answer will be: \u201cit isn\u2019t done\u201d. But it\u2019s no earthly use just saying it isn\u2019t done. If there\u2019s a reason why it isn\u2019t done, give the reason\u2014if there\u2019s no reason, don\u2019t attempt to stop me doing it. All other things being equal, the mere fact that something \u201cisn\u2019t done\u201d is in itself an excellent reason for doing it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Derek Parfit, \u2018The Eaton College Chronicle\u2019, in Anthony Cheetham and Derek Parfit (eds.), <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NWZ1KY\/002-5107494-4344855?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=famouspeoplewith&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B000NWZ1KY\">Eton Microcosm<\/a><\/em>, London, 1964, p.101<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why shouldn\u2019t I eat toothpaste? It\u2019s a free world. Why shouldn\u2019t I chew my toenails? I happen to have trodden in some honey. Why shouldn\u2019t I prance across central park with delicate sideways leaps? I know what your answer will be: \u201cit isn\u2019t done\u201d. But it\u2019s no earthly use just saying it isn\u2019t done. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[2475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}