> From: lweiger at umich.edu
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:24:31 -0400
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: What is the moral course
>
> Is there supposed to be something wrong with that? Jeremy Bentham is a
> great model for left politics. Social justice, if such an abstraction can
> be said to exist, is rooted in concern for human well-being. Mass killings
> have an odd tendency to detract from that end...
as does a bizarre calculus of human lives and deaths, if you ask me. it's why you haven't seen me lobbing numbers into this debate. figures are important kinds of facts, but going back and forth about them in this context will not get us very far, and this sort of actuarial approach to social justice doesn't do much for me.
>
> -- Luke
>
> --On Thursday, September 13, 2001 12:36 PM -0500 Jeffrey Fisher
> <jfisher at igc.org> wrote:
>
>> what is it with you and numbers? i sometimes feel like i'm reading posts
>> from the grave from jeremy bentham.
>