The Social Pathologist

The Diseases of Modern Life as seen through the Secular Confessional

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Form without function.

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Farnsworth house is truly beautiful architecture. Designed by Mies van der Rohe for a prominent urologist, Dr. Edith Farnsworth. The house i...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Form follows function.

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No it doesn't. Engineering is one of those fields where economy and efficiency of materials are highly prized. It, perhaps more than ar...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Deals structured by cows.

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Imagine a wealthy landowner (A) who has a herd of 1000 cows. Suppose this landowner was old and pre-occupied and found it difficult to look ...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Thoughts on Australian House Prices

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Courtesy Reserve Bank of Australia. Buckle up!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The cause and prospective duration of the current economic crisis.

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Postmodern accounting.

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H.L Mencken was right, democracy is the greatest show on earth. Yours truly has been following the financial meltdown and political process ...
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Monday, August 18, 2008

How to get a holiday in American Samoa.

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Recently I've been reading about the Katyn Forest massacre. For those of you who aren't up to date with your World War Two history,...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Human Shields.

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I think that many of the moral problems that confound the average person have at their core a confusion between innocence and in culpability...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The innocence of evil.

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Several months ago there was a case over here which raised profoundly disturbing questions. A local convenience store attendant was attacked...
Monday, May 19, 2008

The wrong stuff.

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I like to visit Alias Clio's blog from time to time. Recently she has been running a series of "Nice Guy" posts. There well w...
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Breaking up is hard to do.

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A former Greenpeace founder gives his opinion on some of his former mates and thir policy ideas. I especially like the comment about policy ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

How to come second in line for the Nobel Peace Prize

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See this little old lady. I bet you don't know who she is. Her name is Irena Sendlerowa. She has just recently passed away, but back i...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Blessed are the Engineers.

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Not many people know who this man is. His name is David Salonimer, an engineer who worked at the U.S army's Redstone proving ground. He ...
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Monday, April 28, 2008

Imprecise precision.

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I wish to apologise to all. I have been away rather longer than I expected and I feel I have let duty slip. I will try to post more in the n...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Keeping in touch.

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I've been really busy the past few weeks and have also had some writer's block. I hope to have a few posts up in the next week.
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Sunday, September 23, 2007

Imperfect acting

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Before a person performs an action, they must have something in mind--the objective--which they intend to perform. The purpose of acting is...
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Monday, September 03, 2007

Moral Object Solutions.

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Apparently My Blog is being read in heaven; no seriously. I got two replies to the Double Effect post from John Paul II (check the comments ...
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Friday, August 24, 2007

Thinking about Hiroshima.

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“What guided me in my thinking and guided all our efforts—The reason the 21 st Bomber Command worked like no other command during the war a...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Double trouble with double effect.

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I’ve been pondering double effect for a while and thanks to the moral definitions in the previous post , I feel I have a better understandin...
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Sunday, August 19, 2007

The Good Conscience

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I thought I would post a link to an interesting speech delivered by Bishop Anthony Fisher of the Catholic Church here in Australia . Bishop ...
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I am a Family Physician working in Australia. Catholic in my religion, Austrian in my economics.
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