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As these things go, the arguments for Social Justice become unintelligible when they are premised on methodological collectivism. It involves positing...

Each term represents the misapprehension of human biology, though I think Self is more applicable. Their referent is perpetually absent or hidden from...

To me, organ donation is morally wrong if the donor does not consent. The same is true of human incubators, which is its own kind of organ donation. W...

Presumably the bodies are kept alive in order to be used for the period of gestation. So there is the added question of: should these brain-dead peopl...

Spinoza made lenses for a living and was still able to produce some musings during his short life.

To me the judge isn't the sole proprietor of brain-dead human beings, so I would disregard his decision as illegitimate and unethical.

A disturbing paper, but very interesting. I never knew of the opt-out system. I have to object from the get-go because there is no justification as to...

This thread has turned out to be a nice little compendium of the presumption of guilt and its propaganda. 6 years of hoax, fake news, and nothingburge...

I’m speaking of those in the state who give bailouts and subsidies. Milton Friedman said we don’t need central banks, that if it was up to him he woul...

It was not so much window-dressing as it was an attempt to climb out of a number of ideological failures: the failure of state socialism, the failure ...

Neosocialism? Neo-social democracy? The big mistake about the neoliberalism theory is that it puts people like Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Obama, and Bi...

I appreciate it. The availability of guns certainly contributes to the use of them. There is no question about that. But gun control laws have steadil...

There is a perfectly good thread here. Our interlocutors have every right to share their own opinion, as well.

I’ve just want to know of a single neoliberal policy that has led to a single death of despair, which for some odd reason includes mass shootings.

Let’s hear it.

Note, the connection cannot be made. He fails his own test.

It appears to me that one ought to be equally cautious because the religious denomination has yet to prove itself to be any sort of mitigating factor ...

It should be easy to name one neoliberal policy that contributed to just one school schooling.

No neoliberal policy or lack thereof put a gun in anyone’s hand, I’m afraid. The Swiss government, on the other hand, does offer guns to every conscri...

So stupid is it that false analogies are your only recourse. How does a government impact your life without a policy?

I suppose if one depends on the state as a child does on the nipple, the disappearance of one precludes the suffering of the other. Perhaps a process ...

The “real self” is already apparent. You are witness to it, conversing with it, and interacting with it. You need not traverse anything to find it. It...

That’s a good point. A policy can only have impact if it forces someone to do something or act in a particular way. The repealing or absence of such a...

Note that no connection between “neoliberalism” and a single feeling of despair has been made, much less to any number of them—nor could it. So far, i...

Wherever the right to life, speech, to hear, is violated to serve some distant end, the censor is engaging in morally wrong behavior. That’s why I add...

We can quibble about one sentence quoted out of context but I think it remains pretty clear if the rest is considered.

I’m wondering how the censor can know and be confident that his act of censorship was the right thing to do. It was morally wrong to murder Socrates a...

You cannot say whether the act saved us or not from what you promised it would. Without this knowledge how can you say it was morally good? I said it ...

I’m not a utilitarian. The argument was epistemological and ethical. We can never know if an act of censorship protected us from the ill effects we we...

The interplay between euphemism and dysphemism is an interesting subject in rhetoric, worthy of analysis. To avoid either, one might try to substitute...

The distortion of the truth, ie. lying, is different than the suppression of truth, ie. censorship. One can be straightened out while the other simply...

Irony, satire, myth, caricature, sarcasm, metaphor, hyperbole—deception is a function of language just like any other articulated sound from the mouth...

Presupposing that man is fallible leads me to conclude that he should not have the power to determine and enforce what only the infallible ever could....

My point is that it is unjust and illogical to deny the right to to receive and impart information to all people at all times when only some people at...

When the NYT released the Pentagon papers the government argued that to release them was a threat to national security. It turns out this was hot air,...

You’re right on that. F?at j?stitia ruat cælum is a precious principle to me.

It doesn’t follow that because someone reads something he invariably accepts it. It doesn’t follow that because a kind of information is unacceptable ...

Do you accept everything you read? It doesn’t follow that because one reads something he invariably accepts it. It doesn’t follow that because a kind ...

The utility of censorship and the benefit to those who practice it is without question. The government and its supporters no doubt benefit from the ce...

Because we're neither children nor slaves. Such behavior is unjust and stupid.

I have given no such right because I do not know an answer to the question of who knows better than I do what I can or cannot read and write. Maybe yo...

The “spread of misinformation”…so fearful are we of such a spread that we will give the power to censor misinformation to those who are historically a...

“Measurable harms”? Like what?

I always face the insoluble problem of who I would give the right to decide what I can or cannot say and read, as if I was a child or student. I canno...

Looks like the FBI found more classified documents, even after we are told Biden and his team have been forthcoming and returned everything willingly ...

Take a look at the Index Librorum Prohibitorum to get a sense of the vandal’s project. Voltaire, Montesquieu, John Locke, Hume, Balzac—more than a few...

I would prefer 1 to 2. Then again I’m not sure what kind of security I risk losing. The hypothetical seems to me to make no sense because the two are ...

Thanks for writing that. Not unlike your own experiences, Justice Holmes used the “fire in a crowded theater” theory to justify jailing dissidents who...

I think you’re right. The overlap of rights causes a sort of schism. My belief in property rights, for example, suggests that people can restrict anot...

Joe Biden may have inadvertently funded his son’s procurement of Russian prostitutes, who may or may not have been involved in human trafficking. http...