A few brief things before a full-blown return to blogging:
Blair to call on faith leaders to ''awaken the world's conscience''. Well, it fisks itself! There are so many things wrong with the idea - that the world has a conscience, that if it does that it will listen to faith leaders, that faith leaders wish to do so in partnership with each other and, most obviously, whether anyone in the world actually listens to what Chuckles says any more.
Blair to call on faith leaders to ''awaken the world's conscience''. Well, it fisks itself! There are so many things wrong with the idea - that the world has a conscience, that if it does that it will listen to faith leaders, that faith leaders wish to do so in partnership with each other and, most obviously, whether anyone in the world actually listens to what Chuckles says any more.
Da Fink is talking balls here. Just because there is a difference between a social transaction and a market transaction has no impact on the privacy of the individual.
The Israeli schoolchildren turning up late for school once late-fines had been introduced is completely different from this case. Mr. Mosley wasn't getting whipped by Nazis for free at any point and there is no 'social obligation' for him to be whipped, beaten an lashed by buxom Aryans in the same way that there is a social obligation for kids to go to school and be there in time for assembly and to sing 'Onward Christian Soldiers'. For any number of reasons the two are not analagous, similar or, indeed, the same.
In Finkelstein's world, it would be ok for BUPA to publish records of their patients. The patients after all are, like Mosley, paying for something they want and for something they could get free elsewhere if they so wished. I don't see why BUPA shouldn't publish which clients have STDs, erectile disfunction etc if we use Fink's logic.
Indeed, the second comment on the piece cites psychiatry as an example - if Mosley had decided to work out his demons through talking to a shrink rather than having his bottom skelped, should it be a private matter or should the public know what is going on?
I am with Mr. Syed here. Disgust carries not a shred of moral or legal force when it is directed at those engaged in mutually consenting behaviour, whether it involves sex, spanking or leopardskin handcuffs - well struck, sir... a fine shot through the covers.
Isn't this piece rather depressing? When will employers begin to invest in them even if they do break various employment laws....
The Israeli schoolchildren turning up late for school once late-fines had been introduced is completely different from this case. Mr. Mosley wasn't getting whipped by Nazis for free at any point and there is no 'social obligation' for him to be whipped, beaten an lashed by buxom Aryans in the same way that there is a social obligation for kids to go to school and be there in time for assembly and to sing 'Onward Christian Soldiers'. For any number of reasons the two are not analagous, similar or, indeed, the same.
In Finkelstein's world, it would be ok for BUPA to publish records of their patients. The patients after all are, like Mosley, paying for something they want and for something they could get free elsewhere if they so wished. I don't see why BUPA shouldn't publish which clients have STDs, erectile disfunction etc if we use Fink's logic.
Indeed, the second comment on the piece cites psychiatry as an example - if Mosley had decided to work out his demons through talking to a shrink rather than having his bottom skelped, should it be a private matter or should the public know what is going on?
I am with Mr. Syed here. Disgust carries not a shred of moral or legal force when it is directed at those engaged in mutually consenting behaviour, whether it involves sex, spanking or leopardskin handcuffs - well struck, sir... a fine shot through the covers.
Isn't this piece rather depressing? When will employers begin to invest in them even if they do break various employment laws....
And to Cleggy, Cleggover, Cleggsakimbo etc. Whilst I think he was stupid to answer the question (nothing is more likely to put one off one's lunch than to imagine a Liberal Democrat mid-coitus) about how many women he had slept with, I would imagine that his wife had more to say about his answer to whether he would cheat or not ''I would certainly hope not'. Then again, these liberals...
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