tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005339752957379026.post8249375904362136683..comments2023-10-29T07:15:21.919-04:00Comments on Intelligent Falling: God and Reason part 4: "Doesn't the church produce hypocrites and injustices?"Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15115112001151182281noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005339752957379026.post-48244204767096014322013-02-16T13:24:32.175-05:002013-02-16T13:24:32.175-05:00I started teaching university classes in the late ...I started teaching university classes in the late 1960s. I not infrequently got an appeal from a male student for a better grade on the ground that if the poor grade stood, the student would flunk out and be drafted and sent to Viet Nam, where he very well could die.RBHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562135000111792590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005339752957379026.post-87918458566001119422013-02-15T09:53:41.421-05:002013-02-15T09:53:41.421-05:00Nice example Jeff. I've been faced with simila...Nice example Jeff. I've been faced with similar grading decisions (though not life-and-death). I expect most profs have.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15115112001151182281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005339752957379026.post-54182977903402468012013-02-14T17:55:33.868-05:002013-02-14T17:55:33.868-05:00The truth of the matter is that you always know th...<i>The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.</i><br /><br />Utter crap. Consider the following: you're a professor and a foreign student comes to you because he did poorly in your course. He's only in Canada on a student visa. If he flunks your course, he flunks out and has to return to his own country where he will be persecuted by the current regime or even killed. Should you stick by your university's standards and flunk him (he really deserves it), or pass him so he can stay alive?<br /><br />Is it obvious what the right thing to do is there? Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.com