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Please use this to talk among yourselves, should you choose. Trump fires Comey (he needed firing, but, ummm, not like this); and Sessions decides that the drug war should go back to the 90s.
Ick.
Round two of shuddery-cold fever has me in its grip, so please use this threat to talk among yourselves, should you so wish.
I’m rather under the weather, so please use this post to talk among yourselves, if you so desire.
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I hope you are of good cheer, healthy, and in no danger or meaningful deprivation.
I’m not celebrating this year, since my immediate family is dead and my extended family far away, but it’s a lovely day of rest, and I am happy if others are happy.
Regular posting will resume soon, there seems little point in anything extended right now. (One of the things daily traffic charts make clear is that people surf far more at work than home!)
Take care of yourself.
Use the comment section to talk amongst yourselves, should you so desire.
Competent and good are not synonyms.
Smart and good are not synonyms.
Evil and competent are not synonyms.
Virtues are not all moral virtues.
Bravery is a morally neutral virtue. It makes bad people worse, and good people better, and without it all virtues and vices are nearly meaningless.
Competence is morally neutral. It is how you use your competence that matters.
Next: Human Nature.
It is possible for people to be both good and bad. A politician may do something good, and then do something bad. It is even possible for a person who is evil overall (George Bush, Obama, Putin) to do the right thing, for the right reason. People can murder others one day, and rescue babies the next and rescue those babies out of the milk of human kindness.
If you do not understand any of the above, if you are not capable of disentangling your emotions or your tribal identities enough to reason like this, then you are incapable of rational thought when it matters.
Finally, if you do not like my writing, if it bothers you that I say that Trump is competent, or that Genghis Khan, though evil, was a great man, you do not have to read it. If someone is threatening you to force you read my stuff, please call the police.
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