The man who stops and considers how each action will effect his bottom line may refrain from taking actions he should take, and may begin to take actions he should not... all to please the fickle and evil majority. All that we can do is our absolute best... And we should hope that the market rewards our good work with fair reward, but we should not be surprised if the market only punishes us for failing to put finances before the Right.
Yet when the market works, this is how it works -- that people recognize and desire quality, and are willing to give more and spend more to achieve it.
STUDENT: And can the political system work the same way that an ideal market system works? Can people recognize and reward quality?
STOCKMAN: It is possible, of course. In an ideal system, beaurocrats would be guided by the best and the wisest minority, chosen by those elected by the majority. They would have information unavailable to the public, and they would have incentives to use it -- either because quality was rewarded or from sheer public love. In an ideal system, the slow moving majority would not serve to destroy progress, but only to ground its excesses and make a creative challenge. In an ideal system, those who recognized truth would themselves be recognized... In an ideal situation, in short, I would be mayor!
And what would I be?
STOCKMAN: Why.... whatever you had the will to be, of course.
PETRA: Father... what are you going to do about the letter?
STOCKMAN: Of course, I must respond! I must go to London and testify about the sickness that is eating up our fair town... And not just the sickness of the baths, but the sickness of...
Yet I suggest you consider that it is also not always blind. You should consider not only the benefits of your obfuscation, but also the costs. Certainly today you will keep your business afloat... But what will you do in the summer when typhoid starts killing your visitors? No-one was happier about these baths than Thomas... yet he noticed the pattern. Do you think no one else will notice?
Ibsen / Public Health Write about the Public Health ethical issues involved in the play An Enemy of the People is a play in five acts, which depicts a public health crisis in a small Norwegian town. The protagonist is Dr. Stockmann -- he is a physician in this town, and his brother Peter Stockmann is the mayor. As the first act begins, we hear the mayor talking with the newspaper editor
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Although "peace" appears in the speech as often as "United Nations," I am arguing that "United Nations" is the more primary of the two terms here, having precedence over "peace" since I believe that Bush is asking his listeners to focus on the formal authority of the United Nations as the font from which peace can be coaxed. Focusing on peace as the primary term would (I believe) make the
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