[lit-ideas] Re: Aren't you glad you no longer have a Hitler problem?
- From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:10:14 -0400
Deutschland vs. Argentina on Fri is going to be one helluva game.
-E
Quoting wokshevs@xxxxxx:
> Quoting Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>:
> snip
>
> > If
> > two men both in principle endorse horrible violence,
> > then the only moral criterion that remains to
> > distinguish between them is that one was prepared to
> > live up to his principles, while the other was not. I
> > stand behind what I said in the above, but within its
> > proper context.
> >
> > O.K.
>
> Irrational consistency cannot constitute a moral criterion since morality
> is
> grounded in rationality. The perceptually challenged baseball umpire who
> always
> calls a pitch two inches below the strike zone a strike is acting with
> perfect
> consistency. (Source: Habermas or Larmore, I think.) It remains the case,
> however, that he should not be an umpire.
>
> (But then is it still true that, in the words of one
> epistemologically-oriented
> umpire: "They [the pitches] ain't nuttin' til I calls 'em."?)
>
> Rooting for Deutschland ueber alles,
>
> Dr. O.
>
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