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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Merit (1) by Desert and Merit (3) | Policy of Truth
[…] Sher’s account of desert and merit raises many questions and leaves many questions unanswered, so let me double back to consider some of these, some addressed in his chapter, some not. I’d originally thought I’d leave the cr…
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(Policy of Truth) Desert and Merit (3)
The value or worth of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power, and therefore is not absolute, but a thing dependent on the need and judgement of another. –Hobbes, Leviathan, I.10.16 Sher’s account of desert and…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Fortification, Part I: The Besieger’s Playbook
This is the first part of a planned five-part series covering some of the basics of fortifications, from city walls to castles and field fortifications! We are going to discuss what fortifications were for and how their design changed in response both to different strategic and operational conditions and also to changing technology. Throughout this,…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on H.L.A. Hart’s “The Concept of Law” (1) by Irfan Khawaja
An interesting instance of issue (3) from the original post: Al-Haq’s first major activity was to document the extensive changes in local laws in the occupied West Bank mandated by Israeli military orders. These, in violation of international law, wer…
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(QC RSS) Accessorized
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(Cat and Girl) In the Year 2040
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(QC RSS) Flower…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Merit (Part 1.5 of 2) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. An anonymous author at The Atlas Society on this topic: Does the pyramid of ability mean that you are unworthy if you are a janitor? Plainly you aren’t a productive titan, at least in that role, and you are paid accord…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Merit (Part 1.5 of 2) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. My hope was to skip over the Second Labor and fast forward to the Fifth. But of course, I was hoping to be paid properly for it, the folly of all janitors. LikeLike
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