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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on New Blogger: Kevin Carson by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. (Or possibly not. I don’t recomember.) LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on New Blogger: Kevin Carson by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. “I now demand to know the name of the “high church Randian.” IT WAS YOU!!! LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Bishop John Shelby Spong, RIP
I was saddened to learn today of the death of John Shelby Spong, Bishop Emeritus of the Newark, New Jersey diocese of the Episcopalian Church. Though I can’t claim to have known Bishop Spong very well, he was a close friend of my parents’, and a constant presence in our family home. He was for…
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(QC RSS) Let’s Get Pumped
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Diachronic Fairness by Roderick T. Long
The serpent represents entrepreneurial alertness. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Freedom, Action, and Desert by Desert and Diachronic Fairness | Policy of Truth
[…] being informed of the dangers involved, the worker appears to assume the risks of doing so. The expected-consequence account likewise says that a hospital worker who knows that she will face infection on the job ought to […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Desert and Diachronic Fairness | Policy of Truth
[…] This may sound vacuous, but I don’t think it is. It doesn’t settle the question of what does or doesn’t imply disrespect for a worker’s status as a purposive agent, but it presupposes that there is some such question to be asked, and answer t…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hospitals Are Not Safe: Infection, PR, and EVS by Desert and Diachronic Fairness | Policy of Truth
[…] I get can often be given in advance of the effects of this danger, assuming they ever materialize. If I’m a hospital worker, for instance, I face the dangers of hospital-based infection. If I’m owed extra compensation for facing this danger,…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on EVS Journal (2): Migraines, Operating Rooms, and the Common Good by Desert and Diachronic Fairness | Policy of Truth
[…] of redress or rectification) can be owed for facing dangers that might materialize but never do. I worked for eight months in a hospital operating room during the height of the COVID pandemic. I was not vaccinated until the fourth month on th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Diligence by Desert and Diachronic Fairness | Policy of Truth
[…] (2) fits Sher’s account on the basis of the reasons given in chapter 4, in defense of diligent effort. Since diligent effort is a basis for giving the effort-expending […] LikeLike
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