In one of my daughter’s classes, she was shown footage of me talking about ethics a decade ago. The views I’m espousing made me double-take, writes Zoe Williams
In one of my daughter’s classes, she was shown footage of me talking about ethics a decade ago. The views I’m espousing made me double-takeou were in our PBE video,” my youngest said, when she got home from school. I find it hard to disaggregate the acronym lessons in the timetable, and tend to assume everything is PE. It struck me as unlikely, however, that I’d be in a PE video, so I dredged my brain and found “philosophy, beliefs and ethics”. Sure, that checks out.
“I said you were my mum, and nobody believed me,” she continued, and I said: “Why? Are you known for making up weird lies?” And she said: “That too, but also, different surnames. Then, when the teacher believed me, she asked if you’d come in and talk to the class, and I said you’d probably like that but, from my point of view, absolutely no way.”
“What was I saying?” I asked, dragging her attention back to the video. She gave me an indulgent look. “I wasn’tBut that was not the end of it. I started getting clips from friends whose kids are also in year nine. There’s my giant face, circa 2010 , talking about Big Ethics – the death penalty, abortion, voluntary euthanasia – as the voice of humanism. It’s not a formal doctrine, see; any of us can be its high priestess. The problem is, what I’m saying is wild.
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