User: Matthew Stannard
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- "Who needs life when you've got Wikipedia?" Ollie
- Interested in doubt vs belief vs certainty
- Making contributions on behalf of Derek St Clair-Stannard, Byron scholar
- A trustee of the charity FNF. See Fathers' rights
- Also see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1958237.stm
- User:217.44.157.197 when not logged in - not exclusively used by me, but also by Oliver Stannard and perhaps guests in our house.
- User:217.158.80.239 when not logged in - from Office.
- User:217.75.160.30 when not logged in - from work.
- Stan d'Alone on eMule
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Politics
- Me (born 1954): Economic Left/Right: -1.62, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00
- Guy (born 1982), my eldest son: Economic Left/Right: -0.88, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.46
- See [1]
The Office
I once worked for a successful growing organisation. It introduced management ideas, including staff appraisals. My boss, who was a philospophy graduate and an avowed atheist, took me into his office for my first appraisal. He praised me for working hard, but told me off for my disconcerting tendency, which others had remarked on, of causing senior management to question their most fundamental beliefs. Looking for a let out I mentioned that this presumably wasn't a problem for him since, as an atheist, he wouldn't have any fundamental beliefs. He replied,'There you are - you're doing it again.'
The Home
My teenage daughter wanted to have a party. I allowed it, but said that I wouldn't be providing any alcohol. Her teenage friends brought alcohol, and my daughter had too much to drink. Afterwards I was blamed - if I had provided the alcopops that had been requested then her friends wouldn't have been forced to bring strong liquor and there wouldn't have been a problem.
Work
... I signed the non-disclosure clause.
Play
There are two types of people: the type that divides the world into two types of people and the type that don't.
There are deontologists, who endeavour to govern their behaviour by codes of ethics, rules, principles, etc., and there are consequentialists, who govern their behaviour based on its consequences and anticipated consequences. These terms I encountered when helping my daughter with her school homework.
To play a game one needs to be a deontologist. But to play well one needs to be a consequentialist. Game of Consequences, anyone?
