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Article #579Re: March against crime - Joan Torr's Army Against Crime
From: Kym HORSELL
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:00
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nenosed@apex.met.au (Ned Latham) writes: >Kym HORSELL <kym@cs.mu.oz.au> wrote: >> nenosed@apex.met.au (Ned Latham) writes: >> > Kym HORSELL <kym@cs.mu.oz.au> wrote: >> > > One of the classic methods of determining "the good" when it comes to >> > > choices between actions is to select the alternative that is most contrary >> > > to one's self interest. >> > Well, there's a self-defeating definition, if ever I heard one. >> Well, that's the view of people that DEFINE "the good" to be their immediate >> self-interest. ;-) >----snip---- >Others too, Kym. Those to whom self-interest is irrelevant to the definition >of ``the good'', for example. As I said, some people (GenX-ers, eg) define the 2 to be the same thing. Ergo running into a burning building that contains a child, and returning with $1mn from a wall safe is "OK" for them. Just one of the reasons some places had to institute "bystander" laws rather than relying on some moral up-bringing of the citizenry. -- R. Kym Horsell KHorsell@EE.LaTrobe.EDU.AU Kym@CS.Binghamton.EDU http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~khorsell http://cs.binghamton.edu/~kym
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,f1849926ff12a566 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 1056b9,f1849926ff12a566 X-Google-Attributes: gid1056b9,public X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,f1849926ff12a566 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083c4,public From: kym@cs.mu.oz.au (Kym HORSELL) Subject: Re: March against crime - Joan Torr's Army Against Crime Date: 1999/11/15 Message-ID: <80o8a4$3gq$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> X-Deja-AN: 548719483 References: <381d00ed.6697537@news.m.iinet.net.au> <381e8739.1601169@news.m.iinet.net.au> <nMBT3.863$Q3.3259@ozemail.com.au> <381ef41c.29480137@news.m.iinet.net.au> <HTJT3.68$46.621@ozemail.com.au> <381f8c06.429317@news.m.iinet.net.au> <381F9343.107C35B3@zeta.org.au> <7vr5h4$3i2$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <qtxU3.1196$vO2.7526@ozemail.com.au> <8057ir$brt$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <slrn82cvic.tt4.nenosed@localhost.localdomain> <80dngj$ekm$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <slrn82l8bn.8dv.nenosed@localhost.localdomain> Organization: Computer Science, The University of Melbourne Newsgroups: wa.general,aus.general,aus.politics