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In reply to mlyoung57. I’m sure I agree with a lot of conservatives about cases, e.g., the Christakis incident at Yale, Charles Murray being shouted down at Middlebury, the demand for Bret Weinstein’s resignation at Evergreen, the demand fo…

In reply to Roderick. That’s Rothbard’s old argument. Anarchy might not work. Limited government has been tried. If accept that as a conclusive argument against both, the conclusion is that something like 19th century England or the U.S., …

In reply to mlyoung57. Well, Catholic intellectuals often refer to the ethos of the modern world as “a culture of death” as contrasted with their preferred “culture of life,” but most non-Catholics have little trouble seeing the…

A killing culture (a culture with lots of killings) would probably be bad or wrong and many folks would even mistakenly think of all (not just, say, most) of the killings in the killing culture as bad or wrong. But one might use ‘killing culture&…

Consider the following social phenomena: Public denunciation or accusation Boycott Termination (in the context of employment) Litigation Regulatory proceedings (e.g., audits, sanctions, and the like) Arrest (in the context of criminal proceedings) Assassination I’ve organized them in ascending order of intensity for the person on the receiving end. Two obvious points about the items on…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Yes, quite absurd. The important thing is, in the case of each particular sort of moralistic maneuver (and we’ll need at least something of a valid categorization of these), to say when the use is good and bad, effectiv…

Planning to reread that Op-Ed. Often, my upon-reflection views are not quite the same as my initial reactions. That might be the case here. Though I think we disagree on background conclusions regarding different sorts of broadly social or institutiona…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. And I pretty much agree with your points and your general take on the cited cases. LikeLike