Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Yes. This is why I don't really care about all those interpersonal utility comparison complaints.
ReplyDeleteYou should only really care about interpersonal utility comparisons if you think there's some value to appeasing Felix.
Otherwise, who cares?
Granted - people who also don't worry about interpersonal utility comparisons should be more explicit about what it is they can "prove". Many are explicit about this (http://factsandotherstubbornthings.blogspot.com/2011/10/who-said-it.html), but many aren't.
btw - google informs me that your page is in Italian, and it prompts me to translate :) I wonder what would happen to the English if I do.
ReplyDeleteMeh - it doesn't do anything to the English. But no I know what your title means. I never bothered to look it up before.
ReplyDeleteWhich is sad that I didn't know the title (hung up on "Bocca" - I know Verita, because my wife has a little figurine of the statue from her travels.
ReplyDeleteThe photo is of a gimmicky "mouth of truth" machine in Siena -- you put money in, and the truth about you spits out. The real "mouth of truth" is in Rome from 1st century AD.
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