Posts by HORansome
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This is my photo, taken last year I think. It kind of captures the image of me I have in my head, which most photos of me don't, I find.
And yes, I do have an arm lodged in the back of my head. It's a long story and I have to hide it carefully whenever I leave the house.
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It’s like a village where everyone’s Machiavelli.
Portmeirion
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Russell Brown,
Well, I think there's comedy potential in a short series of vodcasts consisting of José pitching increasingly wacky stories, with you just staring at him, non-plussed.
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That's very sad, and I'm not just saying that because I was relying on more guest appearances to fuel my rampant ego.
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Just one nitpick: why Russell for Deputy PM and not Meteira?
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to BenWilson,
Surely it all depends on what form the Emission Trading Scheme takes?
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Also, what Ben said. Twice.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Scott Chris,
How does ascribing to a relativist position make your claim:
Morality is directly related to social context, be it Ancient Rome, pre-European Aotearoa or a Eden Park.
cogent? Unless you hold to, and can defend, moral relativism (and you just said you don't hold to it), then it's not at all clear that the morality of an act can be judged upon context. If you're an Error Theorist then I can see how you might say "Look, there's no truth to any claim about homophobia being good or bad" but that's a far cry from moral relativism, which claims the truth or falsity of any moral claim is context-dependent.
Also, saying:
the uttering of homophobic slurs and passive tolerance of such utterances is the prevailing cultural practice at these venues in my experience.
confuses the standing of cultural practices with claims about the morality of those practices. It's making an appeal to tradition to justify kinds of behaviour, which is simply fallacious.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Scott Chris,
If you happen to be a moral relativist (a position most moral philosophers find incoherent); you'd be better off arguing for some Error Theory position than try to justify homophobia that way.
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Hard News: The United States of Surveillance?, in reply to Christopher Nimmo,
I'm of the firm belief that there are a host of people in the security sector who delight in coming up with logos and names which reflect contemporary conspiracy culture. In part I think they're playing games with certain conspiracy theorists but I also think it's just the natural result of living in a world where conspiracy theories get talked about all the time.
