Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) Titanic Malice
The response to the Titan submersible event has, in my view, been both remarkable and bizarre. Some people have found it an occasion for gallows humor; others have tried to suggest that the crew/passengers felt no suffering as they died. Still others tell us that we should celebrate the heroism of people who take risks…
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(QC RSS) Lunch Lady
I know it’s actually “room and board,” Zlata does not
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(Our World in Data) We launched our new Sustainable Development Goals Tracker
With our SDG Tracker you can track global and country-by-country progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – I like her
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(QC RSS) Rubbing It In
Cold Moray…
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(QC RSS) Green Acres
Viktor is prone to hyperfocus
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on BLAMELESS WRONGDOING (A COUNTEREXAMPLE TO THE FITTING-ATTITUDES APPROACH) by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I think one paradigm case of wronging fits what I call the VD pattern: objective violation as an expression of disregard (roughly, malice or negligence). (The other paradigm case is insult or disrespectful speech-acts more ge…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on BLAMELESS WRONGDOING (A COUNTEREXAMPLE TO THE FITTING-ATTITUDES APPROACH) by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Yes, that is what you have to say about those cases. At a more general level, the needless imposition of cost (harm, risk) has to be wrong (and blameworthy) because ‘needless’ describes something about the agent&#…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on BLAMELESS WRONGDOING (A COUNTEREXAMPLE TO THE FITTING-ATTITUDES APPROACH) by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. True enough. The two paragraphs after constitute an attempt at movement beyond that intuitive loggerhead. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on BLAMELESS WRONGDOING (A COUNTEREXAMPLE TO THE FITTING-ATTITUDES APPROACH) by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. That you have most reason to train yourself out of having the appropriate attitude does not make the attitude not appropriate (and it is appropriateness in self-resentment, not actually having the attitude, that would be cons…
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