Poetic Justice as Fairness
It seems that quite some time back John Holbo devised a term for the form of argument critiqued below -- "Poetic Justice as Fairness". That's a little John Rawls humor for the philosophers in the audience. As he says, it's a "vendetta-based, rather than abstract reason-based approach to argument."
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As a matter of policy, I do feel that politicians and their families should bear the consequences of their policies as much as, if not more than, the rest of us.
April 28, 2006 7:49 AM | Reply | Permalink