[Buddha-l] Thoughts on action in 2007

[jkirk]

"like shooting fish in a bare,.-you meant a bar?

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From: "Richard Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu>
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> On Thursday 28 December 2006 10:19, jkirk wrote:
>
>> Peter Singer? Pardon my ignorance but who's he and what did he write?
>> Joanna
>
> He's an Australian ethicist who has worked in the UK and the USA. He has
> witten on animal rights and other forms of practical ethics. His book
> <cite>The President of Good and Evil</cite> is an entertainingly serious
> analysis of the Bush administration. Oddly enough, Singer tips toward the
> position that the Bush administration is hypocritical and morally 
> bankrupt.
> (Critics of Singer say that exposing moral inconsistencies in George W. 
> Bush
> is like shooting fish in a bare, but my students in reasoning and critical
> thinking liked him, in a tooth-gnashing sort of way.)
>
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> Richard Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
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