Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

“Lovers of free market competition will have to reckon with the fact that Maron describes it as a disadvantage from a public health standpoint.” 1. I didn’t hear him say that. 2. Is his hospital making new ICUs with new design feature…

All those thought-experiments you might have encountered while studying consequentialism versus deontology in grad school or some intro ethics course are about to become terrible realities in New York City and northern New Jersey within the next few hours. I’m writing this on Sunday night, April 5th. By tomorrow morning, there’ll be no escape in…

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These people don’t get it. Until they get it. https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/large-gathering-forces-nj-town-to-shut-down-waterfront-area.html LikeLike

When all this over–whatever that even means–I hope no one tells me that things like this never happened. I know how tedious it is to see another post on this much-belabored issue. But hard experience with the 9/11 celebration rumors taught me that if you don’t rigorously document something in real time, people will deny…

New Jersey residents respond: the best way law enforcement can help us is to enforce the law, not make it up. https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/04/nj-police-chiefs-say-the-best-way-to-help-them-is-to-stay-home.html That’s not what Executive Order 1…

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[…] twelve hours with emergency medical services in Paterson, New Jersey (worth contrasting with my brief description of a drive through Paterson about a week earlier). Both of those stories are now obsolete, just a few days after posting them. R…