tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post6536695708413825715..comments2023-08-16T12:07:22.995+00:00Comments on The Daily (Maybe): John Angliss: Value PluralismJim Jeppshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-82008287458225913242008-02-21T18:16:00.000+00:002008-02-21T18:16:00.000+00:00Without wishing to be course - for me the big prob...Without wishing to be course - for me the big problem with the choice agenda is there is no meaningful choice. I can't choose to have a well funded state education system unless that option is on the table. <BR/><BR/>When you go to the supermarket all too often the choice of what to eat for your tea will be shit from a packet or shit from a box.<BR/><BR/>... It also comes in different colours... woopJim Jeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-2363167026653999602008-02-21T18:00:00.000+00:002008-02-21T18:00:00.000+00:00The big flaw in the 'choice agenda' is obviously t...The big flaw in the 'choice agenda' is obviously that the rich can afford to choose what they want whilst the poor get 'second choice' scraps off the table.Leftwing Criminologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369810078697007763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-65716924279589490962008-02-21T14:33:00.000+00:002008-02-21T14:33:00.000+00:00This post is very good on that subject: http://www...This post is very good on that subject: http://www.philosophyetc.net/2005/01/objective-moral-relativism.html<BR/>Gray does claim that he's not a moral relativist, although his judgements upon moral issues still seem arbitrary to me.John Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17497399766612758001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-86751645623630769652008-02-21T12:36:00.000+00:002008-02-21T12:36:00.000+00:00I know that moral relativism is the bug bear of ev...I know that moral relativism is the bug bear of every political discussion but wasn't it a necessary development to counter balance the colonial view point that had hitherto underpinned all discussions?<BR/><BR/>I'm not for it of course - but I think the very word has become such an anathema that we can forget it did actually have something useful to say - even if it did so in too blunt a fashion.Jim Jeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.com