Michael Schur

With nothing more than my computer and a firehose of self-righteous anger.

And then I started to feel sick to my stomach.

And so did JJ at the exact same moment.

We both were suddenly overcome with this awful feeling that there was something very bad and wrong about what we were doing, but we could not pinpoint what it was.

I just remember thinking, all right, I don't care about cars getting little dings and dents, but this guy does.

Is that wrong somehow?

I don't think that's wrong.

And also, is this little tiny negotiation that we're in really worth all of this fury and rage and shame that I'm whipping up and sending in his direction?

I don't think it is.

So I did what any rational person would do in this situation.

I started crying, and I hid under my bed.

And then I started reading philosophy.

and I started calling philosophy professors and asking them to talk this out with me.

And in the process, yeah, and they all, by the way, did it, because philosophy professors love talking about philosophy.

The drop of a hat.

They will all talk about philosophy with you.

So in the process, I learned all of these incredibly wonderful theories that the smartest people who have ever lived have developed over the last 2,500 years that help us make better decisions and become better people.

For example, I learned about Immanuel Kant and the categorical imperative.

So Kant says when we're about to do something, we have to design a rule or a maxim that we could will to be universal, meaning we have to imagine what if everyone did what we're about to do, what would happen to the world?

Would it be OK or would it get all screwed up?