Comments on: Some More Pics from Istanbul and Kabul http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/12/27/some-more-pics-from-istanbul-and-kabul/ Personal website and weblog of the libertarian thinker Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Tom G. Palmer http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/12/27/some-more-pics-from-istanbul-and-kabul/comment-page-1/#comment-17779 Tom G. Palmer Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:45:47 +0000 http://tomgpalmer.com/?p=4488#comment-17779 Thanks, JR. That's a useful and interesting comment. There's an interesting series of articles on the origins of humanitarianism by Thomas Haskell: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/humanitarianisms/pdf/Haskell%20-%20Capitalism%20and%20the%20Origins%20of%20the%20Humanitarianism%20Sensibility.pdf http://www.jstor.org/pss/1860956 I hope that you enjoy them in the new year!! Best regards, Tom Thanks, JR. That’s a useful and interesting comment. There’s an interesting series of articles on the origins of humanitarianism by Thomas Haskell:

http://www.hhh.umn.edu/humanitarianisms/pdf/Haskell%20-%20Capitalism%20and%20the%20Origins%20of%20the%20Humanitarianism%20Sensibility.pdf

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1860956

I hope that you enjoy them in the new year!!

Best regards,
Tom

]]> By: JR http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/12/27/some-more-pics-from-istanbul-and-kabul/comment-page-1/#comment-17595 JR Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:16:53 +0000 http://tomgpalmer.com/?p=4488#comment-17595 Dear Mr. Palmer, I have been a fan of yours since my time working in the US Senate back in 2000, when I had the privelage of sitting in on an excellent presentation you made to staffers. Since then I have moved on to work in the humanitarian world. I enjoyed reading your comments, "People live there, and we need to be reminded of that." How correct you are. A friend of mine who worked for the IRIN news organization in 2006 and 2007 truly brought this home to me at a time when the ONLY photos coming out of Iraq were of car bombs, when nearly all journalists were planted with the military. How foreign to the world of ordinary civilians who must live out their lives away from the headlines. I believe that the libertarian and humanitarian worlds have much in common. Judge Napolitano, far more pop than yourself, still was able to bring this home to me in a recent column where he contrasted rights, which emanate from our humanity, with goods, which are things that can be bought and sold. These roots in natural law are profound, and connect to the minimalist approach of MSF, ICRC and other humanitarian organizations that truly understand the importance of neutrality, impartiality and humanity in working with people. My best, JR Dear Mr. Palmer,

I have been a fan of yours since my time working in the US Senate back in 2000, when I had the privelage of sitting in on an excellent presentation you made to staffers. Since then I have moved on to work in the humanitarian world.

I enjoyed reading your comments, “People live there, and we need to be reminded of that.” How correct you are. A friend of mine who worked for the IRIN news organization in 2006 and 2007 truly brought this home to me at a time when the ONLY photos coming out of Iraq were of car bombs, when nearly all journalists were planted with the military. How foreign to the world of ordinary civilians who must live out their lives away from the headlines.

I believe that the libertarian and humanitarian worlds have much in common. Judge Napolitano, far more pop than yourself, still was able to bring this home to me in a recent column where he contrasted rights, which emanate from our humanity, with goods, which are things that can be bought and sold. These roots in natural law are profound, and connect to the minimalist approach of MSF, ICRC and other humanitarian organizations that truly understand the importance of neutrality, impartiality and humanity in working with people.

My best,

JR

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