Posted by Sigismund on November 16, 2008, at 13:12:06
In reply to Re: Priest says no to communion for Obama voters » Sigismund, posted by Nadezda on November 16, 2008, at 10:18:38
When John Gray was in Sydney he talked about this man in the civil service in Britain during the war. This man appeared before his department and said 'There has been a leak, men are dying because of it, so I am going to do something wrong today.....I am going to sack you all, because that is less bad than allowing servicemen to be killed because of this leak'. And he went ahead and did it. Isaiah Berlin may have used this as an example of ends not being commensurate, but I know no philosophy so I'm really not sure. John Gray told us that this was different to the utilitarian position.
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