[lit-ideas] Re: Aren't you glad you no longer have a Hitler problem?
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:38:57 -0230
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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