Lehrmann going going gone.

Originally posted by Scott th Ratbag: ↑

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.

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@Scott th Ratbag - briefly: I really don't know the 'ins' and 'outs' of this story, excuse the alliterative language - and I don't wish to know, so I should not have commented.
Our philosophy 'instructor' at the 'Learning Center' who is not qualified, except in his job, (which has nothing to do with philosophy) , but is fairly conservative, and wants to point out G.d's design in everything, (he is a practicing Catholic) - really got into the legal argument with the males in our group; the three females did not participate. Being mature women, we have had our share of troubles, some good, some bad, with men - (and they probably with us) - to know, it's part of the human condition to be confused about sexual consent, flirting etc. etc. - but I have observed that certain men, particularly if repressed in some way, seem to have the gourmet's 'taste' for discussing stories of that kind . . . I won't say any more - HotCopper is an example of that phenomenon . . .
Nuff said - yes, our weather is by now really sad - nature seems to be dying all around me - my house still has some native forest trees, and the back fence borders on some native bush. When I am 'cleaning' my backyard, it's mostly scooping up very dry leaves, which are crumbling into dust.
Anyone who still disputes that climate change is happening (and my philosophy instructor does do that) is blind and stupid, luckily the young ones mostly 'get it' - I reckon the World will just scrape in, at 5 Minutes to Midnight!

Here is hoping!!

namaste to you too! ❤️
Tau