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In reply to Suleman Khawaja. lol LikeLike

In reply to Stewart Frankel. Like most people, I’ve been subjected to public urination by others. Maybe I don’t live in the ‘hood, with Stewart Frankel, where the piss of the gangstas flows through the mean streets in foaming amber ra…

In a post I wrote here back in 2016, I sketched an idea for a paper (as yet un-written) challenging Rosalind Hursthouse’s views on virtue, moral luck, and racism as expressed in chapter 5 of her book, On Virtue Ethics (2001). Hursthouse’s overall view is that ascriptions of virtue and vice are sensitive to moral…

In reply to Stewart Frankel. How the fuck would you know where I live, or or have lived, and under what circumstances? I’m a hospital janitor. You really think an operating room is a spotless environment, or that Environmental Services is an elite posi…

said by faux intellectual narcissists that would cry bloody murder if public urination actually entered their spotless elite-sphere. command of the english language doesn’t de facto make your smart, or right. exhibit a, above. LikeLike

In reply to Suleman Khawaja. And yet. Again, hard to have standing to criticize anti-maskers or anti-vaxxers when you cut corners and engage in double standards like this. Doubling down doesn’t help. There’s a bit of this attitude on the centrist left:…