Category: Philosophy
Nemesis Calling: Is Anybody Home? or
A Satire on Hubris by Outis
Those who gods would destroy they sometimes give more money than the person will ever be able to use in that person’s lifetime.
Or they sometimes make that person wealthy as the result of ze’s creation of a fungible product that has no intrinsic value whatsoever to society and could equally be replaced by something equally valueless, where ze just happened to be one of the first kids on the block.
Will I still love you tomorrow? Or
But who won the war?
“I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.” (Horton Hatches The Egg, Dr. Seuss (1940))
Sometimes, though, if we accept Horton’s statement as true, there’s room to wonder if the judge(s) said what they meant when one considers the consequences of what the judge(s) said to the next case with slightly different facts, even if the result is what the judge(s) seem to have intended in the particular case.
That is, if one applies what the judge(s) said for what they said.
Those of you who know the Quinn v Leathem aphorism might consider it. The rest of you could look it up. It’s on this blog.
A measure of a man
A brief digression into politics and philosophy, both moral and realpolitik.
The 4th Monkey Still in Abstenia 