Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Will Wilkinson is the most talented, insightful, and (incidentally) successful writer of the cohort of libertarians to which I once half-belonged back in the 1990s, when I was (sporadically) associated with David Kelley’s Institute for Objectivist Studies and the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. His apostasizing critiques of libertarianism are among the…

In reply to boydstun. All best wishes for a full recovery! LikeLike

I later figured out that the name of the nurse who gave me the shot was Melissa Hanscin. https://www.nj.com/news/2020/12/cant-stop-us-nj-nurse-says-healthcare-workers-give-it-our-all-all-day-every-day.html LikeLike

In reply to Sherida Yoder. Both the firstcomers and the latecomers are taking a risk, but only the latecomers are using the firstcomers with respect to risk: they are using the firstcomers’ voluntary exposure to risk to figure out whether to take…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I don’t quite understand your car accident example. The most natural reading of the example is that you underestimated the risk of serious injury before the accident, then had the accident, then (as a result of the a…

And really both the earlier vacciners and the later ones are taking a risk: the early vacciners (is there such a word?) are risking complications from the vaccine. The later ones are risking infections and possible death by catching Covid-19 because th…