#panini #Ashtadhyayi

Michelle Psycho Milt 🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ NZ Law Commission Paul Goldsmith 2) none of this means we should be considering making some people’s beliefs (or persistently stated beliefs) about these issues illegal

Michelle Psycho Milt 🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ NZ Law Commission Paul Goldsmith Another think I like about the analogy is that there are certain communities in which belief in these phenomena are expected, and in some cases even used as a condition for remaining in the community

Michelle Psycho Milt 🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ NZ Law Commission Paul Goldsmith Why should employees have to put up with others curtailing their beliefs about perfectly ordinary things, like others’ sex? Having the law compel people to voice a certain view would obviously be a major affront to liberal values

Michelle Psycho Milt 🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ NZ Law Commission Paul Goldsmith What if I sail to a Catholic colleague that I thought belief in transsubstantiation was silly? Would that reduce his dignity and respect? Should I be forced to say I do believe in transsubstantiation?

James Kierstead Psycho Milt 🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ NZ Law Commission Paul Goldsmith Mostly at work I just talk about work things and try to be pleasant and respectful to colleagues. Religion does not often come up.

Super darn bad ending. Aurangzeb also refused state funeral in January 1666 (after the Chair of St. Peter installed in Rome and before Charles II returned to London following the Great Plague) and just sent his body to the Taj Mahal.

James Kierstead I liked The Turn of the Screw.

This is fascinating and suggests just how endemic the New Zealand academic free speech issues raised by James Kierstead have become. thespinoff.co.nz/books/03-10-20…

The man was no hack

They Jain Tirthankaras, obvs

I think it’s strange (and sad for the Indian economy) that you can’t get a new visa from inside the country (or renew an expiring one in less than a week). On the other hand, I have always wanted to go to Kathmandu

Michelle Psycho Milt 🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ NZ Law Commission Paul Goldsmith I think this is a difference with the trans debate. If someone identifies as a different sex (or gender), then you probably will be in the position to have to refer to them with pronouns at some point.

Michelle Psycho Milt 🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ NZ Law Commission Paul Goldsmith But the fact that the choice of what to say in this case comes up more regularly doesn't affect the principle. People should not be constrained by the law to say things that they don't believe

“A motorcyclist who traveled 15 miles every day for a year had an astonishing 1 in 860 chance of dying. A person who took a 500 mile flight every day for a year would have a fatality risk of 1 in 85,000.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/love-blindne…

The gods are fierce; we must placate them

MJones I think my favourite is *The Ambassadors,* but I have a soft spot for *The Aspern Papers,* and I'm increasingly seeing the virtues of *The Portrait of a Lady*

To be fair, James Kierstead, you tried this with *What Maisie Knew* and it nearly ended you

🧵Prof. Michael Rainsborough (Michael Rainsborough) was head of War Studies at KCL. In 2019, he co-wrote a paper in support of Brexit. He was summoned to a meeting with his faculty dean. "People are unhappy with you" he was told. "We'll be looking towards you stepping down."

This is how the Rig Veda puts it