Lehrmann going going gone.

Originally posted by Taurisk: ↑

@Scott th Ratbag - thanks for your balanced view. You are right about the 'gossip' aspect of it all. My 'bad' - I have not followed this at all, except for this last act of the comedy - one could simply not avoid - when watching the news: - viewing men in fancy clothes, making learned pronouncements . . . . . . .
Even in the 'Philosophy' course I am attending, the elderly and very Christian 'leader' could barely contain himself, discussing' the ins and outs of this case for a good 20 minutes - it has become an accepted 'intellectual' exercise, to have an opinion on these two pathetic people.

In the meantime, major mischief makers are playing with fire all around the world. Maybe the public seeks distraction from that, and of course, the professional trouble fixers get their status and their income boosted by it all.
In the end: they are two fairly 'average' - and not too clever, - adults - and both made major mistakes of judgment,
except the girl came out 'winning' an amount a sex worker can only dream about.
I don't envy her that, as this story will follow her for the rest of her life, except if she is a good manager, it will be a very comfortable life.
I am not so sure about that man; he may have to do something more physical for the rest of his life rather than 'give advice' or whatever his role was.
In the meantime: the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
Take care
Taurisk

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hi Tau

I can get the philosophical implications wrt "duty of care" and the perpetual habit of people engaging in spacious gossip. duty of care is akin to Plato's forms in that it has become a high principle of perfect administration of an business. its held as a item for brandishing at the heads of employees who make mistakes and is accepted as unachievable by any company and so ignored.

but salacious gossip? how to discuss this with reason? hahhehe..... humans are what we are hey.

so how did your philosophy 'leader' address this.... I'm very curious.

its a shemozzle and none are any the wiser for the incident and the sequelae in the courts and news media. and that latter would be a good addition in a philosophical discussion.

but you were probably doing the right thing staying away from the mis/disinformation that has been rife around the matter. so much bs from both sides and all in between, including myself, has been a waste of time. TV talking heads rabbiting on with instant judgements have spawned such much advertising revenue that it has become a cause celebre for regulating truth in TVland....... when all we really need is truth in politics.

stay cool over there in WA Tau..... you've had a hot and dry summer over there while we've had a pretty reasonable coolish and humid (outrageous high humidity for NSW)

namaste
Scott.