Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

On Wednesday August 5th, Donald Trump posted a snippet of a Fox and Friends segment to his social media accounts. Discussing the important matter of school reopenings, the president said the following: Schools should be reopen. When you look at children, children are almost—and I would almost say definitely, but almost immune from this disease…they’ve…

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In reply to Roderick T. Long. Within a few decades, musicians had achieved a certain prescriptive determinacy on the suicide question. From “take or leave it” to… LikeLike

Maybe he’s trying to say that (the relevance of) suicide brings on many changes, he can take or leave it as he pleases, and oh why ask him? LikeLike

In a recent post at 200ProofLiberals, Jason Brennan issues the following challenge to defenders of COVID-19 lockdowns: Did the Lockdowns Work? Here’s a new paper by the excellent Christian Bjornskov arguing that they did not reduce mortality: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665588 Note that the defender of the lockdowns bears the burden of proof demonstrating otherwise. Simple post hoc…