Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. That all makes sense. Size certainly matters — that is part of why Providence/RI (very closely analogous to a city-state, that amalgam) has done so well. As well as the sheer competence of the Raimondo (state) administr…

In reply to mlyoung57. I raised the issue with several people, two of whom had extensive hands-on knowledge of elder care. One basically agreed and the other basically disagreed with my take. I haven’t commented on the larger issue of bureaucrat…

I found this column puzzling too, but for somewhat different reasons. Why expect outrage to track (beliefs regarding) number of deaths (or potentially needless deaths) caused by this or that agent or institution? To the extent that outrage tracks somet…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I agree with most of that. I’d chew on all of this some more if I had time/desire and maybe, at the end of it, change my as-yet unchanged best guess (but, really, who cares what my best guess is, given that I’m no…

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From an article in The Financial Times, “Health Experts Fear US Protests Will Lead to Surge in Coronavirus Cases,” June 3, 2020: In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said he was concerned the protests could trigger further outbreaks before N…

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Epidemiological suicide bombing, Exhibit A. There’s no difference between the attitude that Williams expresses here, and that of a terrorist master for Hamas or Hezbollah. The question is which inference to draw: does this prove that Williams&#82…