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OurOwnMyths 19 - 14 Feb 2009 - Main.MichaelHolloway
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I don't know what 'refactor' means,
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  • Suddenly everyone is an anarchist. This proposition is hardly self-evident.
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  • I agree that this came out as a gross generalization at best. But it's not fair to assume that it reflects a major philosophical shift based on ideas I'd never come across before enrolling in this course. I don't see any grounds for that assumption.
 4) If my goal is to do justice, (2) and (3) together present a problem: my efforts to implement positive justice, if they meet with any success, might only lead to new and unforeseen injustices.

  • There's no evidence offered for this proposition, and if one
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  any client if one had a supervening duty to prevent unforeseen harms to everyone else.
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  • Point taken. But if unforeseen harms are a problem worth taking seriously, I'm not sure how to proceed.
 I wouldn't so readily equate being a critic with staying on the sidelines, though. In our society, the tendency is to frown on people who criticize the way things are without offering solutions of their own. But I don't think that's fair; simply complaining about injustice can serve some useful purposes. It lets others feeling the same way know that they're not alone, and can show the injustice to others who hadn't thought about it before.

-- MichaelHolloway - 14 Feb 2009


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