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Thursday, October 26, 2006
Professionalism
That's what I think of when in the course of your job you help somebody else do something you might personally disagree with, because it's your freaking job.
Pharmacists who deny access to birth control because they disagree with it based on their medeival morality, should lose their job. Doctors who refuse to provide the care that patients want, not for legitimate medical reasons but on moral judgements about their patients choices, should lose their job. And now, cabbies who refuse to transport people carrying alcohol because it conflicts with their religion, should lose their job. It's your freaking job people, do your job! |
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Hey, both you and Stanley Fish are saying the same thing. Kind of.
I made the further point that this is what extracurricular means – outside the curriculum, and therefore not subject to the imperatives usually thought to be in force in the classroom. What I want to say today is that classroom imperatives are not moral or philosophical either. While phrases like freedom of speech and academic freedom are routinely invoked whenever there is a discussion of how professors should conduct themselves, classroom performance has nothing to do with such grand abstractions and everything to do with a simple injunction: do your job.
8:37 PM, October 26, 2006
I do mine quite well, thank you, and not because you or the gov't tells me to.
You are like the religionists when you claim that we'd all be living in misery without the guiding hand of government to save us from ourselves. They rely on god, you rely on legislators who don't even read the laws they are passing.
Mindless faith is a virtue to some, so I guess in your crowd you are quite virtuous.
(I figured I'd come meet you on your own turf)
9:29 PM, October 26, 2006
Coming here to meet him "on [his] own turf" doesn't really mean much if you're just going to regurgitate your standard empty blather. Are you ever going to address or refute the numerous specific examples he offered of when we WERE worse off before government regulation?
Until then you have nothing but your blind faith. (Cute touch, trying to accuse him of the same, even though the best you could ever dredge up evidence-wise is an anecdote and an appeal to emotion.)
I AM LIBERTARIAN, RAWR
I AM AN ISLAND
11:20 PM, October 26, 2006
Yeah, Spike's been avoiding those tough historical examples for the typical libertarian imaginary government which consists of bureaucrats sitting around with their thumbs up their asses, wickedly trying to figure out how to make people's lives more difficult.
He's never heard of an advisory panel, or scientific committees, etc. It's kind of funny. So, in this imaginary view of government, the decisions made by the evil "bureaucrat" are no more or less valid than the average consumer, who apparently has the capability before every decision he/she makes to know absolutely everything, about everything.
THis all-powerful consumer reads the software code on ATMs before depositing their money, and examines airplane blueprints before flying. They conduct multi-year clinical trials to prove the efficacy of a drug (of which they have complete pharmacodynamic understanding) in their minds. They, without any effort, can determine the sanitary conditions of meat packing plants just by looking at the bar code on a package of ground beef.
In short, this all-powerful libertarian consumer, is Chuck fucking Norris, and he doesn't need no government to make sure anything is safe. He's Chuck fucking Norris.
9:29 AM, October 27, 2006
By God, I think you've hit on a good one. I expect to see more of this Chuck Norris as über-Libertarian metaphor in the future. Too bad we don't know a cartoonist . . .
-JE
9:38 AM, October 27, 2006
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