Tag: compromise

• Thou hast slept well. Awake!

  Do you ever wonder what happens when you wake up in the morning? Not after you’ve woken up, but the act of transitioning between absence and presence? When you become you again? If awakening is an awareness of you, then where was this you when you weren’t? Consciousness is a curious issue: a type of…

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  September 21, 2022

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• When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

  Have you ever wondered what it means to be reasonable? Is it actually an injunction to be fair and sensible about something, or merely to change your mind? Is it to consider the merits of whatever is being discussed and arrive at a compromise that takes both sides of the argument into consideration, so that…

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  April 27, 2022

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• How Ethical is Ethical Compromise?

  What to do with a minefield? Once it is there, is it sufficient to avoid it while we investigate and map it –mark it off as terra incognita- or must we act immediately to attempt to remove all mines even if we do not fully understand their distribution or destructive capabilities? Even if we may miss…

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  December 28, 2016

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