“I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more influence on policy, in the absence of a social decision to play that game in the way it's proposed to be organised for some set of benefits.” WayPlayGamesSocialDecisionInfluencePolicyBenefitsDeserveAbsenceAccessFasterMathematicianRunnersBetter LifeOrganised Author:Catherine Wilson
“Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.” HumansSaidEndsEvilCompassionMiddleDeserveAbuseSpeciesExtremesWideComicDestructiveGood And EvilTargetDoomedSpectrumHarassmentAmbiguousCourtshipLoatheBlackmailBeyond Good And Evil Author:Catherine Wilson
“Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.” MenFirstsPersonsRealUseYoungMoralDeserveCreditHelpfulBehaviourYoung WomenTestimonyFirst PersonUnnoticedPrincipledBeneficiariesOlder ManGentlemanly Author:Catherine Wilson