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Incredible story - I highly recommend watching the video after you read the article, too. What incredible people who stand up to it, including Mayor of Praxedis José Luis Guerrero de la Peña, who says:
“It cannot be the case that someone kills for pleasure. Something is wrong in their life. I don’t want to hit them or for them to be killed. I would just like to hear their testimonies, in a fight for this community. If we don’t manage it, then I won’t let it dismay me. But if we do, then what a grand triumph that would be for our community. I want to continue with love and believe that is the path. There is no other way. And while I am governing, I don’t want to lose this chance to love.”
Picture of the Day. Sana’a, Yemen. October 15th. A woman comforts one of her wounded relatives in a hospital set up by demonstrators in the capital city.
Photo Credit: The New York Times Via.
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Picture by picture, these criminals are being identified and arrested, and we will not let any phony concerns about human rights get in the way of the publication of these pictures and the arrest of these individuals.
Slippery slope there, Mr Cameron…
Says it all, really, doesn’t it?
As if that will solve anything!!! Typical Kantian logic on display, each individual is singularly responsible for his/her own fully rational decisions and must be punished accordingly. Hey, don’t get me wrong, what has happened in these shops and to these people is very saddening, but no amount of jail time will address the social problems/conditions that have allowed such a thing to happen in the first place. We are social beings and we exercise our agency WITHIN/FROM/THROUGH societal influences/habitual behaviours/group dynamics/emotion/poverty/neglect/etc. etc. Our Kantian justice systems do NOT take into consideration any of the above. But of course, such a logic is convenient to those in power, who wish not to relinquish control for the greater good.
EDIT: I’m not saying people should not take responsibility for their own actions, they should. But I find deeply problematic and inadequate the way responsibility is understood and captured by our current justice systems.
8 articles (I read it for the interesting comments) on increasing manufacturing in the U.S.
Thought-provoking.
“Today’s grads enter a cultural climate that preaches the self as the center of a life. But, of course, as they age, they’ll discover that the tasks of a life are at the center. Fulfillment is a byproduct of how people engage their tasks, and can’t be pursued directly. Most of us are egotistical and most are self-concerned most of the time, but it’s nonetheless true that life comes to a point only in those moments when the self dissolves into some task. The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It’s to lose yourself.”
