Hamiltonian Endgame
HAMM:
Back to my place!
(JEFF pushes chair back to center.)
Is that my place?
JEFF:
Yes, that’s your place.
HAMM:
Am I right in the center?
JEFF:
I’ll measure it.
HAMM:
More or less! More or less!
JEFF (moving chair slightly):
There!
HAMM:
I’m more or less in the center?
JEFF:
I’d say so.
HAMM:
You’d say so! Put me right in the center!
JEFF:
I’ll go and get the tape.
HAMM:
Roughly! Roughly!
(JEFF moves chair slightly.)
Bang in the center!
JEFF:
There!
(Pause.)
HAMM:
I feel a little too far to the left.
(JEFF moves chair slightly.)
Now I feel a little too far to the right.
(JEFF moves chair slightly.)
I feel a little too far forward.
(JEFF moves chair slightly.)
Now I feel a little too far back.
(JEFF moves chair slightly.)
Don’t stay there.
(i.e. behind the chair)
you give me the shivers.
(JEFF returns to his place beside the chair.)
JEFF:
If I could kill him I’d die happy.
Is that about right, Daniel?
Noah Millman: I found your insights in W.W.J.R.D (What Would John Rawls Do?) very inspiring.
I am very interested in the discussion about the ethics of Cost Benefit Analysis. You write that for these reasons among others, CBA is rightly viewed as a somewhat suspect tool. But I did not quite catch the point on the distribution effects.
I am sorry if I boast into this thread, but I haven’t been able to find your contacts anywhere on the internet.
I hope I can ask you to deliver some points on this. I am a danish philosopher, very interested in climate ethics.
Best Regards
Rasmus Gregersen
— Rasmus Gregersen · Dec 8, 07:50 PM · #