In baseball, some batters are known as “clutch hitters.” In ordinary situations, they may be no better than .275 hitters. Not bad, but nothing special. But in extraordinary situations, situations in which the game is on the line, they often rise to the occasion and temporarily become the equivalent of .350 or .375 or even … Read more
All systems of morality will have a place for both the idea of moral duty and the idea of moral rights. But some systems will put duty in the first place while others will put rights in the first place. And so we’ll have two contrasting systems depending on which has the primacy: a morality … Read more
It frequently happens that a small but very determined and very well-organized group overcomes a much larger group that is less determined and poorly organized. Think of something we’ve seen in the movies – a train robbery in the Old West. A half-dozen armed robbers stop a train and deprive its 500 passengers of their … Read more