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Exaggeration is a useful educational tool. However Ec 10's presentation of Rawlsian distributive justice is not just a case of using an extreme example to illustrate a point. The selective witholding of inconvenient parts of Rawls' assumptions is careless at best and dishonest at worst. If Rawls' ideas are only useful to Ec 10 in a severely mutated form, they should not be used...
Fein either has not read Chomsky's books or heard his many talks in the Cambridge area, or she knows his position. If the former, she is irresponsible; if the latter, dishonest. Neither is good journalism...
...against the drug lords and those, notably the owners of Medellin's El Colombiano, who prefer a negotiated truce. In 1984, when he was still editor of the paper, Juan Gomez Martinez wrote, "To sit down with these despicable people, who are wanted by justice, is dishonest. It would twist the values of our country. It is an immoral and terrifying proposition." Gomez -- whose title became publisher when he was elected mayor of Medellin in 1988 -- has turned into a leading advocate of government bargaining with all rebel factions. His rationale for dealing with the traffickers: they cannot be defeated...
...argue that the current assignment system is problem-free is--not to put too fine a point on it--intellectually dishonest. Clearly, a house system that consistently produces clusters of groups in certain houses is not in everyone's best interest. Diversity among houses is not enough. The house system must maintain diversity within every house...
...dishonest decade...