Ted Honderich took the “moral” out of “moral philosophy”. He may have had a strict and uncompromising view of morality, declaring: “You can be as amoral or internationally realist as you want, but it can’t save you from moral judgment.” Yet matters were different in his own world: he slept with his students, made repeated marital vows and enjoyed at least one “open marriage”.
We know at least one like that, don’t we children? The arena of the morality might be different but tax laws, tax morals, are for thee, not me, we know someone like that, right?
Ah, a right shit.
Leftists often assume that their personal behaviour is less important than their political ‘morality’.
Two-Tier Ted.
Theo
But of course your personal behaviour, political morality, and indeed every aspect of your life should be under their total control.
Two-Tier Ted
Exactly! TTK thinks he is a good (because socialist) person, so he can have double-standards and lie with impunity while rightists can’t because they are bad people.
TTK thinks
Does he?
Low cunning and a glib way of telling lies aren’t thinking. I don’t believe these people are capable of thinking, they lack the intellectual software to do it. Nobody who can think would do what the british-identified government does.
Steve
Your point is about words, not things. ‘Thinking’ can have several meanings. “Low cunning and a glib way of telling lies” is standard for politicians. (And Reform will be no different…)
“And Reform will be no different…”
Maybe not, but it’ll be fun sending all the current incumbents off to the Gulag.
Theo – no, we have enough words, and not enough thought, that’s the problem.
It requires net zero critical thinking skills to believe in Net Zero. Our politicians emit words that have no relation to physical reality. Duckspeak.
“who rose … to hold the most prestigious philosophy chair in London”: Small earthquake in Chile; not many dead.
“I fell into two small affairs”: at least he owned up – will Two-Tier in his memoirs?
“Unable to make do on a professor’s salary and book royalties, he was reduced to living on handouts from his multimillionaire publisher brother.” It’s all right when WE do it.
“On matters of philosophy he was similarly textured.” A hit, a palpable hit.
‘[T]he British welfare state, which he described as “the moral glory of the 20th century”’: easier to believe if you have subsidies from a mutimillionaire brother.
What a lovely obit.
Talking of The Times, they may do lovely obits but they have a denialist writing their medical column. Consider:
“The pathologists found that about 1 in 30 white American and European men in their twenties in the studies already had cancerous changes in their prostates, rising to 1 in 15 among black African and Caribbean men. And in those in their sixties it rose to 1 in 3 … and 1 in 2 … respectively. The risk in Asian men was much lower at every age.”
He seems to be denying that race is a social construct. Will Two-Tier jail him?