tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17934023.post7002705994820319603..comments2024-03-20T12:28:00.031+00:00Comments on Liberal Bureaucracy: Terry Pratchett offers some advice on the subject of justice and mercy...Mark Valladareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15773193846795037711noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17934023.post-48826926477284501402014-01-22T16:42:43.510+00:002014-01-22T16:42:43.510+00:00Anonymous,
I wouldn't even begin to suggest t...Anonymous,<br /><br />I wouldn't even begin to suggest that your second point should be contested. But I do find myself wondering if justice and mercy should be such tortured concepts as some of my colleagues imply. Shouldn't principles of either be held consistently, or else risk devaluation?Mark Valladareshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15773193846795037711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17934023.post-4913919130699191202014-01-22T14:28:52.067+00:002014-01-22T14:28:52.067+00:00That doesn't mean that justice and mercy aren&...That doesn't mean that justice and mercy aren't real, of course. It just means that they aren't the sort of things that can be sieved and weighed. <br /><br />Unless you can prove that those two categories ('real things' and 'things that can be sorted and counted and measured') are coincident, of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com