{"id":27,"date":"2012-01-21T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T01:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/21\/knowing-himself\/"},"modified":"2012-03-15T22:11:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T12:11:58","slug":"knowing-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/21\/knowing-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>        <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>     Normal   0               false   false   false      EN-US   ZH-TW   X-NONE                                                                                                 <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n\n<style>  \/* Style Definitions *\/  table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; \tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; \tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0; \tmso-style-noshow:yes; \tmso-style-priority:99; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; \tmso-para-margin-top:0cm; \tmso-para-margin-right:0cm; \tmso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; \tmso-para-margin-left:0cm; \tline-height:115%; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:11.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Calibri\",\"sans-serif\"; \tmso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; \tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; \tmso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; \tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; \tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} <\/style>\n\n <![endif]--><font color=\"#000000\">The captain of the Costa Concordia is accused of cowardice and dereliction of duty in the aftermath of the ship&#8217;s sinking. In the Guardian (where no behavior is too appalling to find a defender) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/jan\/18\/captain-schettino-costa-concordia\">Bruce Hood<\/a>, therefore steps up to his defence with the too-usual line:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">&#8220;Schettino will undoubtedly be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/italy\/9022902\/Costa-Concordia-captains-actions-disgraceful-says-cruise-ships-reluctant-hero.html\" title=\"Telegraph: Costa Concordia: captains actions 'disgraceful says cruise ships reluctant hero\">vilified for his actions<\/a> &#8211; but how many of us can say that we would not have done the same thing?&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">This is excuse-making dressed as humility. I can only say that, in so far as I cannot know the future, I cannot know what I might do; but in so far as I know myself, I know that I would not do <em>that<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The captain of the Costa Concordia is accused of cowardice and dereliction of duty in the aftermath of the ship&#8217;s sinking. In the Guardian (where no behavior is too appalling to find a defender) Bruce Hood, therefore steps up to his defence with the too-usual line: &#8220;Schettino will undoubtedly be vilified for his actions &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}