Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) How Do We Keep Our Balance?
EVS Journal #5 December 15, 2020 Seth, Bilal, and I are doing a late turnover in OR 2. Alexa is playing Christmas carols. I get annoyed. “Two Muslims and a Jew in here, and we’re listening to Christmas carols. Why?” Without a word or reaction, Seth commands Alexa to play “Hava Nagila.” “That’s better,” I…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on UHC, Denials, and Wrongful Death Revisited by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to stephenmlindsay. I did discuss it, though. The whole post is structured around two possibilities. (1) If Thompson committed a systematic series of wrongful killings, then Mangione’s killing him was justified. (2) If Thompson didn̵…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on UHC, Denials, and Wrongful Death Revisited by stephenmlindsay
I think it’s odd that the (im)morality of retaliatory violence itself wasn’t discussed. I know it wasn’t the focus of this post, but the post seems to leave the reader with the implication that the badness of an individual (assuming it is unambiguously…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Failing the Empathy Exams by UHC, Denials, and Wrongful Death Revisited | Policy of Truth
[…] has suffered a great deal from his back injury, and don’t mean to make light of it. My late wife suffered through almost exactly the same ordeal as Mangione, and eventually committed suicide over it. I […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on UHC, Denials, and Death by UHC, Denials, and Wrongful Death Revisited | Policy of Truth
[…] exultation–we’re in danger of losing the denials/reimbursement plot altogether. I know I’ve posted on this issue already, but think I’ve found a better way of saying what I was trying to say in […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) UHC, Denials, and Wrongful Death Revisited
The questions you ask determine the answers you get. If you ask the right questions, you have some hope of reaching the right answers. If you ask the wrong ones, you’ll likely reach the wrong answers. If you give up on asking, you get nothing but what you started with. If you begin in ignorance,…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Dawn will absolutely never learn anything about herself, are you kidding
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! Mary Worth, 12/14/24 OK, reading this almost sent me into a downward spiral — and here I will…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main action of the film, set…
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