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Questions 5
Can a tidy ledger be beautiful? What is “everyday aesthetics” about?
Every invoice needs some approver: why does the order of quantifiers change the meaning?
If many traditions claim revelation and they disagree, can revelation be a reliable way of knowing?
Is the ban on riba about bad outcomes, or about the form a transaction may take?
Discussions 5
Thanksgiving Monday: can gratitude be owed, or does owing it spoil it?
Why does tax feel like theft to some of my clients and not to others?
I do tax returns. When a colleague gets a different total, should I move halfway?
Langar, the Shabbat table and Confucius’s sauce: what does eating together do?
Kirat karni: is honest work a form of worship, or is that just a nice story about work?
Recent replies
- Epictetus was a slave and I drive the 413. What counts as ‘up to us’ at work?
Sikh teaching has a balance I think you'd like. We are told to accept hukam, the divine order, and also to do kirat karo, honest work, and to share what we earn. Accepting the order has never mea…
- If I must file the return, must I file it or shred it? Ross’s paradox for a tax preparer
That's very clear, Ethan, thank you. So the logic is saying "at least one of these must happen", not "either of these is fine". My clients make that mistake with deadlines all…
- Why does tax feel like theft to some of my clients and not to others?
Akosua and Nur, you both point to the same thing: we accept a payment when we can see whom it serves. Maybe my first client is not making a philosophical claim at all. He is saying he doesn't tru…
- I do tax returns. When a colleague gets a different total, should I move halfway?
Siobhán, that is it exactly. The doubt is the reason to recheck. I will say that to the junior staff. For the record, the mistake was mine: a depreciation figure entered in the wrong year. So halfway…
- Monks take the great vows, I take the small ones: is a graded ethic a cop-out?
Sikhism took almost the opposite route. Guru Nanak rejected renunciation and made the householder's life the ideal: work honestly, share, remember God. There is no higher class of vow-holders. I…