Herant Katchadourian, Guilt, ch.6, Guilt Without Transgression, pgs.94-95 ( Read more... )

From the same paper as the previous post (Heyd, Ethical Perspectives 9 (2012)):

"I have argued elsewhere that if everything is right, we do not need rights, that rights are superfluous in a perfectly just world."And I snort softly before thinking, because ( Read more... )

"Israel's military prosecution announced Tuesday that no legal steps will be taken against those responsible for the killing of 21 members of the Samouni family during the 2009 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza ( Read more... )

Bottom line: no, I don't think it's an important book. No, I don't think it's a helpful book. Actually, I think that it is downright damaging due to toxic perceptions in its conceptual infrastructure that are never called out. Additionally, due to extensive use of novel jargon, it's a confusing headache to pick through ( Read more... )

The paragraph below came up in a conversation on a locked post at an undisclosed journal, and I think it's worth saying out in public.

There's a critical difference between being injured, and being damaged. Damage is something done unto a thing; when done unto a person, that's "harm". Similarly, "damaged" is the state of being substandard as a ( Read more... )

The short version of the story in this article (will probably show up later in English here) is that a Right-wing movement filed a clearly-false-once-you-look-at-it complaint against a well-known Leftist blogger and activist, who of course informed his readership of having been asked over for an interview by the police ( Read more... )

* I like the Vital Signs blog. The most interesting aspect, for me, is not the medical detective work; it isn't the exotica, either; and i'm not reading it for educational purposes ( Read more... )

( ''There are many very good reasons to oppose the deal for the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. [...] And yet, there is one decisive reason to support the deal.'' )

From the Journal of Medical Ethics blog (Here, public access), on the matter of conscientious objection among medical students ( Read more... )

Weird Hebrew moment, yeah?

So there's the root of SVL. Primarily associated with suffering, it is also associated with occupations of physical load-bearing, patience and tolerance.

( Tl;dr, ''Suffering'' is an activity; ''patience'' is an actively-chosen tool; ''tolerance'' is passive and, more than that, a state. )