Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on COVID-19, Risk, and Rights-Violations by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. Why isn’t it a right to free action? A free action is one without boundary crossing impediments. A pathogen is a boundary-crossing impediment. Every freedom to act implies freedom from the impediment to freely acting. Trespas…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on COVID-19, Risk, and Rights-Violations by Michael Young
The right not to be infected by some individual or group of individuals (to be “free from” the disease or of being infected by others) is not a right to free action. In fact, the former right competes with (or conditions) the latter. And mi…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (50): Rob Roberts, Glen Ridge PD by COVID-19, Risk, and Rights-Violations | Policy of Truth
[…] widow of Glen Ridge Police Officer Rob Roberts, whose tragic death due to COVID-19 I’ve mentioned before at PoT. I couldn’t agree more with what she […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Charles “Rob” Roberts, RIP by COVID-19, Risk, and Rights-Violations | Policy of Truth
[…] my friend and onetime neighbor Alice Roberts, widow of Glen Ridge Police Officer Rob Roberts, whose tragic death due to COVID-19 I’ve mentioned before at PoT. I couldn’t agree more with what she […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) COVID-19, Risk, and Rights-Violations
This is a discussion that Michael Young and I started at my Facebook page on this article by Michael Tomasky in The New York Times (ht: Suleman Khawaja). Here’s Tomasky’s thesis in a sentence: Freedom means the freedom not to get infected by the idiot who refuses to mask up. I started the conversation, which we…
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(QC RSS) Flamewar
someone shadowban him
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on How Inequality Shapes Our Lives by Como a desigualdade molda nossas vidas – 99liberty
[…] amigo Bryan Caplan tem uma resposta ao meu post recente sobre a desigualdade. Estou me preparando para deixar minha cidade e ir para a Alabama Philosophical Society e […]
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Against Anarchist Apartheid by David Friedman
Leslie doesn’t say in which direction.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Who Is Sheldon Richman, and Why Does He Hate the Constitution and American Greatness? and Why Does He Love Jihadis, French Communism, Godless Atheism, and Weird-Ass Epistemology? by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Sheldon Richman. Well, I just repeat my original questions: If what connects secular Jews is a tradition with “roots in a particular monotheism and history,” but the people so connected do not themselves necessarily hold any rel…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Who Is Sheldon Richman, and Why Does He Hate the Constitution and American Greatness? and Why Does He Love Jihadis, French Communism, Godless Atheism, and Weird-Ass Epistemology? by Sheldon Richman
In reply to Roderick T. Long. It’s not secular because the things the person in question does have their roots in a particular monotheism and history. On the other hand, if the person routinely eats gefilte fish and kishka, that would be not Jewi…
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