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A New Essay by Ernest Partridge:
Property Rights and Private Accommodations

Responses to Bernard Weiner's Essay,
Potholes, Petroleum, Pashtuns: Afghanistan As a Local Issue.
 

 


July 28, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ernest Partridge

NEW:  Property Rights and Public Accommodations.  Libertarians and other dogmatists to the contrary notwithstanding, fundamental rights and abstract moral precepts can and do conflict. Accordingly, if one affirms, as both the liberals and the libertarians affirm, that we must respect the dignity of each individual and that each person’s rights must be consistent with the equal rights of others, then it clearly follows that property rights are not absolute and that the public accommodation law of 1964 is correct.

REPRISE:  A Defense of Moral Relativism The relativism that I will defend denies that there are simple, inviolable “absolute” rules of conduct. The moral relativist is quite prepared to recognize virtuous and wicked behavior. But this relativist insists that living a moral life is not a simple matter. Such a life is complicated, not by an absence of moral rules, but rather by the abundance of such rules and the resulting conflict amongst them.  (From November 8, 2005.  See also, "Privatized Hell ").

Conscience of a Progressive.
A Book in Progress
 


Bernard Weiner:

Potholes, Petroleum, Pashtuns: Afghanistan As a Local Issue.   What happens in the Gulf of Mexico and South Asia affects us all locally, and vice versa. We need to get the oil gush stopped and the mess cleaned up, we need to change policy in Afghanistan and re- think our role in the world. Merely maintaining the status quo is tantamount to moral suicide.

REPRISE:   "Groundhog Day" in Asia: Unwinnable Wars.  Unfortunately, even though this piece was written under the previous CheneyBush Administration, much of it is still timely today, as yet again another U.S. President thinks he can pull victory out of the jaws of defeat in Asia, and is willing to sacrifice thousands of brave young troops in the process. (First published June 6, 2006)
 


 

Guest Essays -- Archive


July 28, 2010

NEW: Ernest Partridge's Blog:  What Thomas Jefferson Didn't Say.  A viral e-mail, "'I Told You So' by Thomas Jefferson," from an unknown regressive source, is found on closer inspection to contain much less than meets the eye.

Bernard Weiner's Blog:  A series of encounters over the weekend emphasized the necessity and strength of community and the principle of the "public good," a concept that is anathema to so many conservative Republicans.  All that plus George Clooney in "Up in the Air.