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08 Nov 09

NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth

  • Her behaviour had nothing to do with getting the word out; it wasn’t about preventing harm to others, but rather a simple case of – as I said two weeks ago – “look at me looking at this.”
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23 Aug 09

Truth, hope and light | New Humanist

  • But to dismiss the Right's appeal to moral values is to forget what it offers. However shabbily its partisans may behave, they offer a public conception of goodness the Left forgot how to defend.
  • The Left, by contrast, has deflated the concepts themselves. Most of the voices willing to speak in universal moral terms at all now consider themselves conservative.
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30 Mar 09

Framing Science : The Ethics of Framing Science: Four Guiding Principles

  • dialogue should be a focus of science communication efforts, rather than traditional top-down and one-way transmission approaches.
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04 Sep 08

A personal note about the latest from the GOP Convention « The Inverse Square Blog

  • There is a fundamental, as near as dammit universal moral rule:  the use of another person as a thing, a means to be turned at will to someone else’s end, is evil.
30 Aug 08

TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | With Biden and Palin Veeps, GOP Effort to Get Jewish Vote Collapses

  • American Jews are, for the most part, well-off. But they vote as if they still were poor ghetto dwellers, somehow understanding that their fate is connected to the fate of those who have little or nothing.



    I am not sure where they got that idea. Oh yeah, I know. The Torah.

30 May 08

Socrates on the Campaign Trail: Fear and Hope in the Public Realm

  • The highest good was once
    understood as a common good, a telos or
    final aspiration that, unlike oil, is only enhanced, never diminished, as it is
    shared. That there is such a good, that
    its pursuit is our shared responsibility, and that its enjoyment is our
    ultimate purpose—these are elusive and hard sayings for us today. After all, we are all but convinced that
    there is no singular good, only goods, goods that divide us, pit us against one
    another, bring us to blows.
  • Socrates and Plato, speaking
    with one voice, noted that we have only two basic passions: fear and
    desire. Desire, as they understood it,
    lifts us up and brings us together, for its only true object is either
    infinitely shareable or nothing at all.
    In other words, desire is the longing affirmation of things imagined but
    as yet unseen. We call this hope. Fear, on the other hand, knows its object
    all too intimately—death. Death, of
    course, assumes many shapes and moves at many speeds; but it is always a matter
    of diminishment and denial, ending in nothingness.
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02 Jun 07

KURT JACOBSEN -- THE MYSTIQUE OF GENETIC CORRECTNESS -- LOGOS 6.1-2 WINTER-SPRING 2007

  • Scientists, despite what fables say, usually conform to the
    reigning values in the comfy milieus in which they usually
    grow up.
  • So the greatest
    care is needed when wielding tentative scientific findings and
    one is well-advised to err on the side of generosity when it
    comes to rushing to verdicts about human development because
    these judgments are self-fulfilling in their consequences.
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