Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026
Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly break discussing the mechanics of warfare in Dune. But I did want to stop to chatter a bit about something that came up in that discussion, which is something about the nature of personalist regimes in…
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(Cat and Girl) Monster Talk
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Romantic successes
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! Crankshaft, 3/6/26 It’s been more than three years since Funky Winkerbean ended, but, just as a dying star…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Malley and Wertheim on Iranian “Responsibility” by Roderick T. Long
“If someone kills one man, he is condemned as unrighteous and must pay for his crime with his own life. According to this reasoning, if someone kills ten men, then he is ten times as unrighteous and should pay for his crime with ten lives, or if …
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(Policy of Truth) Malley and Wertheim on Iranian “Responsibility”
When people commit crimes, they often invent elaborate rationalizations to conceal or dilute the moral turpitude of the offense. Rapists notoriously claim that their victims asked to be raped, or enjoyed it during the act. Murderers cite the imperatives of retributive justice. Etc. When it comes to ordinary crimes, most people can see the gaslighting…
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(QC RSS) Into The Drink
something’s fishy
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(QC RSS v2) Into The Drink
something’s fishy
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(QC RSS v2) Into The Drink
something’s fishy
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(xkcd.com) Bazookasaurus
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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