When the going gets weird around here...."Blunderweird"....what's a Clamzonian to do?

Keep on keeping on. We seem to come and go...but we mostly seem to keep coming back. I dunno. Sometimes people strike chords...there once was this guy named Todd...it was back before I had to change my name...the stuff back then seemed a lot more relevant, though.

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Hey H, what is your position on masturbation?

Any extreme position will eventually crumble given specific cases. The question is how many and who will be poisoned by it while it is in play. The Libertarian position that big government is bad for business has to show specific cases and work on those because the other extreme, the Wilsonian position that the government IS business is going to hammer on the Libertarian position with specific cases.

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Hey H, what is your position on masturbation?


Have any of you taken an ethics course where various syllogisms are applied to situations to see which one applies most often or answers the question, what is the good? Greatest good for the greatest number wins most of the time until the example called 'tyrrany of the majority' is presented. This is the case where a minority's essential human rights are violated by the will of the majority. This case is then overturned in a 'specific' situation where it is shown the minority uses that right to overturn the rights of the majority. Note, the general rules can fail and for that reason we select human judges and hope for the best.

And that is as good as it gets.

The challenge is to determine which human rights are essential. At this point, people like Glen Beck and others make the case that this question can't be answered without recourse to a higher power and at this precise point, the problem of maintaining separation of church and state emerges. It is a structural polarity meaning we create it and maintain it by design. Being a polarity it can't be resolved, only managed. Again, it is a dynamic system by design.

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A) They have to be the right people, that is, authoritative and competent. In contracts you will sometimes see the phrase "require authoritative technical contact" put there to keep one side of a negotiation from delaying or causing a forfeit because one of the negotiating parties is not 'empowered' to make decisions or is later claimed to be just a 'listener'.