Comments on: More from the new nef/Oxfam report http://timworstall.com/2009/01/12/more-from-the-new-nefoxfam-report/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Fri, 25 May 2012 01:39:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eva http://timworstall.com/2009/01/12/more-from-the-new-nefoxfam-report/comment-page-1/#comment-26021 Eva Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:50:15 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=5675#comment-26021 @Monty Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg. The review's below (your comment reminded me of it) and it sounds an interesting overview of the topic. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3498349.ece?OTC-HPtoppuff&ATTR=ind25 @Monty

Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg. The review’s below (your comment reminded me of it) and it sounds an interesting overview of the topic.

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3498349.ece?OTC-HPtoppuff&ATTR=ind25

]]> By: Monty http://timworstall.com/2009/01/12/more-from-the-new-nefoxfam-report/comment-page-1/#comment-26020 Monty Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:09:37 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=5675#comment-26020 .. the pollution of the waterways. Alternatively we could all decide to never get washed again. It would be interesting to see how well we can stink the place up that way. .. the pollution of the waterways.

Alternatively we could all decide to never get washed again. It would be interesting to see how well we can stink the place up that way.

]]> By: Monty http://timworstall.com/2009/01/12/more-from-the-new-nefoxfam-report/comment-page-1/#comment-26019 Monty Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:53:49 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=5675#comment-26019 "I have a right not to be polluted by someone else’s activity." I don't reckon that is a basic human right at all. Every time you take a bath, or wash your clothing, you are contributing t “I have a right not to be polluted by someone else’s activity.”

I don’t reckon that is a basic human right at all. Every time you take a bath, or wash your clothing, you are contributing t

]]> By: john cramer http://timworstall.com/2009/01/12/more-from-the-new-nefoxfam-report/comment-page-1/#comment-26009 john cramer Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:42:21 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=5675#comment-26009 Is it no the fashion to aggresively say that everything is a 'right'. From the 'dont send them to prison - they have rights' to the 'dolphins shoud be happy' lot. And the people doing the advocating seem to get government casgh and media attention. Is it no the fashion to aggresively say that everything is a ‘right’.
From the ‘dont send them to prison – they have rights’ to the ‘dolphins shoud be happy’ lot.
And the people doing the advocating seem to get government casgh and media attention.

]]> By: El Draque http://timworstall.com/2009/01/12/more-from-the-new-nefoxfam-report/comment-page-1/#comment-26004 El Draque Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:17:47 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=5675#comment-26004 Actually, I disagree in several respects. I have a right not to be polluted by someone else's activity. I have a right to insist, if necessary via my community collectively, that polluters should pay for damage they can be proved to do. I have a right to claim "Pigouvian taxes" to offset the damage. I agree with you, though, that I don't have the right to impose punitive costs without evidence of damage, in pursuit of an Arcadian ideal of a "clean environment". And that we can only come close to that ideal if we are really rich in historic terms. Actually, I disagree in several respects.
I have a right not to be polluted by someone else’s activity.
I have a right to insist, if necessary via my community collectively, that polluters should pay for damage they can be proved to do.
I have a right to claim “Pigouvian taxes” to offset the damage.
I agree with you, though, that I don’t have the right to impose punitive costs without evidence of damage, in pursuit of an Arcadian ideal of a “clean environment”.
And that we can only come close to that ideal if we are really rich in historic terms.

]]> By: dearieme http://timworstall.com/2009/01/12/more-from-the-new-nefoxfam-report/comment-page-1/#comment-25998 dearieme Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:15:14 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=5675#comment-25998 I don't believe in human rights. We have Civil Rights - they are part of the civis to which we belong; as are sundry civil duties. Once again, the Martin Luther King generation was clearer headed than succeeding ones. I don’t believe in human rights. We have Civil Rights – they are part of the civis to which we belong; as are sundry civil duties. Once again, the Martin Luther King generation was clearer headed than succeeding ones.

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