Alison Marie Air
LightNews LightNews
alisonair.bsky.social
Alison Marie Air
@alisonair.bsky.social
76 followers 470 following 84 posts
she/her
Philosophy MA student at Simon Fraser University
Epistemology/Metaphysics/Ethics

"The wicked do not know what love and trust, for example, can do for people, and couldn't set about using the knowledge if they had it." - Rosalind Hursthouse
Posts Replies Media Videos
alisonair.bsky.social
Neera Badhwar's understandable but hilarious-in-hindsight decision to use Greek letters as the names of example people sometimes makes it sound like she's explaining sigma male theory.
A passage by Neera Badhwar that reads: "For example, Delta may have the emotional dispositions required for being a wise judge without having the emotional dispositions required for being a wise mother, or Alpha may have the emotional dispositions needed for wisdom in socially threatening situations without having them in the face of grave physical danger."
February 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
alisonair.bsky.social
This remind me of one of my favorite excerpts in fiction, from Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.
“I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People,” said the golem calmly. “I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr. Pump. I may be—all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!” “No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded, And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr. Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Did Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr. Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.”
January 31, 2025 at 4:39 AM