sade

I think most of the stuff is still in it (including the exercise bike which plays sade).

Frankly, someone who knows how to wield Sharepoint qualifies more as a Marquis de Sade to me.

Most who, out of curiosity, examine the writings of psychotics such as the Unabomber or Marquis de Sade reject them as incomprehensible.

I still have an old Sade CD from the early 80's and the sound on that CD is very flat.

(Not necessarily sadism - that's just what de Sade felt like doing.

> it seems very difficult to explain why de Sade was wrong.

We remember the realization of the Marquis de Sade that if God does not exist then everything that is, is Right; but further, if the unempirical does not exist, then proclaiming it does is not wrong.

Wow, I knew about the story of a man who shouted at passers by and was thus moved from the Bastille to a different prison just two weeks (slightly less) before it was stormed and all prisoners were released (all being seven if I remember correctly), and that he was then terrified that his writing had been lost, but never realised it was Sade before.

- Put on a Sade album - Give her a glass of rose wine - light a candle beside the bed - Tell her she looks pretty in that dress - Give her a new Coach handbag - Slip some Molly in her drink right before desert Why may you ask...

So that's probably not what you consider "optimal ethics", but given the starting assumption (that there is no God), it seems very difficult to explain why de Sade was wrong.

While the Marquis de Sade had an unusual penchant for buggery (which was illegal at the time) and blasphemy (also illegal), he himself was certainly not "diseased of the mind".

Given that Facebook's official motto is to "move fast and break things", I've always considered developing on their platform akin to contracting for the Marquis de Sade.

Alain de Botton has written about it, too: "A brain originally designed to cope with nothing more tempting than an occasional glimpse of a tribesperson across the savannah is lost with what’s now on offer on the net at the click of a button: when confronted with offers to participate continuously in scenarios outstripping any that could be dreamt up by the diseased mind of the Marquis de Sade.

The Marquis de Sade, for example, used to write stories featuring politicians of the day finding...

Given de Sade's premise (that there is no God), his conclusion seems to follow.

(If you think you can show that it doesn't, go for it.) And many people accept de Sade's premise.