tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-11:35685 Emptied of expectation. Relax. Emptied of expectation. Relax. 2010-06-04T12:32:14Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-11:35685:565477 2010-06-04T12:32:14Z 2010-06-04T12:32:14Z public 22 OK, just for fun, here is the essay question I will be answering this afternoon:<br /><br /><blockquote>‘It is wrong to tell lies, so patients should always be told the truth about their condition.’ Is this a good argument?</blockquote><br /><br />I've turned off emailing comments on this and I promise not to look until I've written the essay (1000 words, in case you're interested). What do you think?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=tinyjo&ditemid=565477" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-11:35685:565185 2010-06-04T10:58:54Z 2010-06-04T10:58:54Z public 7 <blockquote>"Although it is generally true that people say what they mean and mean what they say"</blockquote><br /><br />Are you allowed to put a sweeping general statement like that in the middle of a paper on medical ethics?! I keep being derailed from my reading by stuff like this. There's also<br /><br /><blockquote>The common morality contains moral norms that bind all persons in all places; no norms are more basic in the moral life … [it] comprises all and only those norms that all morally serious persons accept as authoritative. </blockquote><br /><br />I can't decide whether this is so restrictive as to encompass nothing or merely a circular definition which basically boils down to norms that I and people who agree with me (and are therefore morally serious) accept. Thoughts?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=tinyjo&ditemid=565185" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments