Look at the fantasies you have to tell yourself to justify all this. “You know these kids would flaunt the rules! Their escape is proof of the necessi...
It was only a criticism of the idea that by paying tax dollars you are somehow working with others, coordinating your defence. That’s not the case, to...
Denying fundamental rights on a hunch is ludicrous. The just and ethical thing to do would be to fix the testing, not toss them in an internment camp ...
You’re either a “vector of transmission” or not. You don’t jail people who cannot spread the virus. If you don’t know whether they can spread the viru...
I’ll just say that there is a fine line between efficiency on the one hand and laziness and ignorance on the other. You would rather delegate the righ...
The epidemiological relevance of the COVID-19-vaccinated population is increasing If an unvaccinated person with no covid and a vaccinated person with...
It’s true, high murder rates are not a good thing, but neither is a monopoly on violence, the inability to equalize force, the inability to defend one...
Three teenagers from the indigenous Binjari community recently escaped from one of Australia’s internment facilities, the “Centre for National Resilie...
That’s true. But when we address a portion of the body we are nonetheless addressing the body. So we need only reduce our focus and area of concern, n...
It’s a funny video, and quite apt. There is something addictive about owning and firing guns. I suppose it could resemble an epidemic in a way, but wh...
It is the only answer to the question “what perceives?” And such an answer doesn’t demand that all parts of the organism are cognitive or sentient. Th...
What I am trying to do is speak about these things in terms of direct realism, without appealing to noun-phrases that signify nothing, which is admitt...
No, he did not know him. The man was released from a Milwaukee mental hospital following his second suicide attempt on the very day he attacked the ki...
There is a point of agreement. We agree that coercion and force and rights violations are often required to defend another's rights from those who wou...
Even now you won’t touch the argument, and that you buttress it with petty ridicule makes it all the more cringe-worthy. Is the protection of rights n...
You’ll still be a living organism if you lose your pancreas or nose, at least with the aid of medication. The thing that perceives is, in every case, ...
My alternative to a state that violates the rights it purports to protect is a state that doesn’t violate the rights it purports to protect. When I cr...
That’s empirically incorrect. Every being that perceives is an organism. Brains or parts of brains or noses or pancreases do not perceive. That’s just...
Wait all you need. None of what I said requires painting pictures of how society would look. My only point to you was that states violate the human ri...
You don’t need to explain the physics or biology. And It’s true that if we alter the physics or biology we perceive differently. I just think it more ...
B is true: we see the same flower differently than the bee; our lenses and the rest of our biology is different than a bee’s; but the differences are ...
It's a tough question. I might be off here, but I would think direct realism would permit that different creatures, with differing biologies, see the ...
All those people you mention have been met with state force, as far as I know. Why would they say that to the father and daughter? there was no violen...
Thanks for taking the time to write that. I think you're right that a state legal order would see the open-carrying of weapons as reckless. It is a th...
I don’t care how many arms people carry. If they don’t attack each other no one gets shot. The child rapist who first attacked Rittenhouse assumed, wr...
A recipe for escalation… it’s a nonsensical notion unless people start attacking the person carrying the gun. A man and his daughter excercized their ...
Fair enough about your legal interests. But your question about whether his carrying a weapon into a riot should contribute to his blameworthiness is ...
Probably the best method would be to lead by example rather than diktat. That way you don’t have to force people who want to work more, not less. Redu...
Is it a common ploy of yours to rehash what I write into language that comforts you? It’s been a few times now that you’ve done it, that I have to sto...
The Dutch system is probably a fine legal system, but completely irrelevant in both jurisdiction and rights. I’m not sure why we’d compare them. My po...
Thank god it is not up to Dutch law, then. The US has the 2nd amendment, and in Wisconsin a man can bear arms for security. In other words, a man can ...
When did I pretend something like that existed? Never once. And I disagree with your assertions. I love when you start gossiping about me. The “more o...
You didn’t deliver. The United States did not form to protect rights, but to seize power, coordinate war, and to exploit the wealth of the people in o...
The Declaration of Independence was to announce independence from state rule and to dissolve their political allegiances. Rather, the American state c...
I’ve never stated there was a society without a centralised government that had an excellent human rights record. So I’m not sure why I would have to ...
I didn’t mention any noble savages. If you can mention any “centralized government” that has not violated the very human rights it purports to protect...
Perhaps the probability of being surprised in conditions where a creature is unable to use its senses overrides the probability of being surprised in ...
I fear that most are concerned with whom the wealth is given to rather than the fact that it is stolen in the first place. In effect they accept that ...
Good article. To me, the problem lies in the utilization of these principles. The computational theory of mind and the conflation of brains and creatu...
Lies, misinformation, errors, superseded theories, pseudoscience. If you need someone to differentiate between truth and falsity then you are a part o...
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