April 23rd, 2012
Two pieces over the weekend. One, a review of Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy. (Where I’m a pinko squish. Again.) Second, a mid-size essay on the legal doctrine of “wrongful birth.” Which was basically the most depressing piece I’ve written in the last ten years. You’ve been warned.
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First link is bad
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Many schools now “incentivize” performance, paying students if they read books or do well in school; some schools now sell ads on children’s report cards.
“Okay, look. I know you got a crocodile in spelling, but this has gone too far.”
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Somebody needs to read his Hayek and his Smith.
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It is simply a matter of time before someone sues for their own wrongful birth. “If my parents had known I would have such a miserable life they would have killed me, therefore you must pay me for the life I am forced to live.”
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“Men will die for God or country, kinship or land. No one ever picked up a rifle and got shot for optimal social utility”
For antisocial libertoids that is exactly the point–universal free agency and you can play WoW all day from your fission-powered shack in Antarctica. Anyway William Westmoreland already tried a variation of that line once on Milton Friedman.
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OMG, after reading both pieces, I want to kill myself. But I’m confused about whether to blame someone or charge someone.
Gabriel April 23, 2012 at 9:49 am
Good piece on Sandel. I’ve been working on morality and exchange a lot lately. E-mail me if you’re gonna work on it again and would like advice.