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(Policy of Truth) Academized Paper Writing Service
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on how Justin Snedegar’s main argument against the non-contrastivist view of reasons (having-reason) goes wrong by mlyoung57
Thanks for wading through that and for your thoughts. Just a couple of quick points (for you to get to or not as you can or want — I know you are busy): (a) JS’s main position is that R being a reason for X to A (and I think as well X havin…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on EVS Journal (2): Migraines, Operating Rooms, and the Common Good by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Related is my resistance to the Rawlsian notion that society as a cooperative venture for mutual advantage somehow coincides with the boundaries of the nation-state, so that concern about the just distribution of the benef…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Via Dolorosa: Christianity and Anarchism by Maria Prosecuter
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The Truth will set us free on it’s own volition. It’s inevitable. No matter how many idiots deny it or try to cover it up, the Truth will either make or break us. The lies of this system are only held in place bec…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on EVS Journal (2): Migraines, Operating Rooms, and the Common Good by Roderick T. Long
One of my worries about a citizen-focused conception of the common good is that it lends itself all too easily to nationalism: the common good of *our* country as against everyone else. Against this stand not only the universalist cosmopolitan ideal …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Via Dolorosa: Christianity and Anarchism by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Maria Prosecuter. The truth can’t set anyone free if no one makes a case for it. It’s not an agent, and can’t act of its own volition. I agree that you don’t need to convince anyone of anything. But it’s unsur…
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(Radical Classical Liberals) Radical Classical Liberals 2020-11-09 17:24:32
David Forsyth interviews me about crony capitalism. While cronyism is both unjust and harmful, I argue that not all businesses that engage in cronyism are equally at fault. And some may not be at fault at all. But you may prefer to read my discussion of crony capitalism in https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/cronyism-toxic-friendship-between-business-government, where I also reject the…
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(Policy of Truth) EVS Journal (2): Migraines, Operating Rooms, and the Common Good
The second entry in a series on working in an OR. I occasionally get migraines, but before today had never gotten one at work. And I got the works, so to speak: the icepick-behind-the-eye headache, the photophobia, the nausea. Migraines always arise, at least in my case, unpredictably, seemingly without rhyme or reason. They just…
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(Our World in Data) Where in the world do people have the highest CO2 emissions from flying?
Globally, aviation accounts for around 2.5% of CO₂ emissions. But for many, it accounts for a much larger share.
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Closely Watched Brains; or, Czech Your Premises: A Bohemian Rhapsody by Agoric Cafe, episodes 16 and 17 – Rational Review News Digest
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