Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Cat and Girl) Oops! All Prisons
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Pride, the fall, and so forth
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Heathcliff, 5/7/25 The thing about Heathcliff is that he should be dominant in any situation in which he…
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(QC RSS) Post-Its On Post-Its
Oh :/
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(xkcd.com) Globe Safety
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Mass Death by Starvation by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Fair enough. It’s a very compressed post, and I probably should have been clearer. Ultimately, I think there are several different “we’s” here—the morally culpable, the complicit, the borderline, the innocently roped in, …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Mass Death by Starvation by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Okay, but you say “No logic can extricate us from the fact of our guilt.” That sounds like you’re saying you’re morally, not just causally, roped into it. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Mass Death by Starvation by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Americans are collectively though not distributively responsible for what their government does. A sizable majority of the population either actively supports the relevant policies, or is willing to vote, act, speak etc in…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Mass Death by Starvation by Roderick T. Long
Not sure how the logic of “we” works here. LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Mass Death by Starvation
I once had to go a week without food. It weakened me and made me ill, but didn’t kill me or come close. It actually takes a long time to die of starvation, at least if you have water and shelter, as I did. If hundreds or thousands of people begin to starve to death,…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Amusing teen Tuesday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Luann, 5/6/25 Luann is perennially on its weird psychosexual bullshit — Luann and Phil, who are college-aged adults,…
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