[lbo-talk] more 'cool it'

[nathan tankus]

martin schiller says...Yet the author, PARTHA DAS GUPTA, states in the
'Discounting Climate Change' paper, the following... "Even as I
compose this paper, I realise that doing welfare economics is a
delicate matter. There is a fine dividing line between ethical
thinking and authoritarian impulses. It is all well and good for the
ethicist to assume the high moral ground and issue instructions like a
philosopher-king or a Whitehall Mandarin, but social ethics contains
an irremediably democratic element. If others aren’t persuaded by the
conclusions ethicists have reached, the policies they recommend ought
to take those others’ ethical viewpoints into account."

I'm not sure i see what about the article contradicts this quote.
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-Nathan Tankus
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