Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to h7q8fggpfm. Thanks for the link. Stoicism is one thing I didn’t cover with Sugrue. I ended up reading Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations after climbing Bear Butte in the Black Hills (South Dakota) maybe a decade ago. As something of …

The summary of lecture given by Michael Surgue on Marcus Aurelius https://inspirospero.com/marcus-aurelius-by-michael-surgue/ LikeLike

In reply to Sophia Trocentraisin. It’s not “easy” to get exempted from military service in Israel, unless you’re an Arab, in which case it’s automatic. Here is a standard example of what conscientious objection involves. I…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Almost all Israelis serve in the IDF. Though there is conscription, it is clear that a large proportion of conscripts are entirely willing to serve in the IDF, i.e., willing to serve in an army that enforces apartheid and …

In reply to Sophia Trocentraisin. What I was disputing in the post was the widespread belief that you can equate an insurance claim denial with a wrongful killing. Many people have come to believe that the Brian Thompson assassination was justified bec…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Well, after checking, not that much, since it’s fairly easy to get exempted from conscription and the IDF has moved towards a more professional militia. But I will indeed amend this line to be about killing a *volun…

In reply to Sophia Trocentraisin. “instead of killing a random Israelian, it’s like killing a member of the IDF” Isn’t nearly every “random Israelian” a conscript member of the IDF at some point? LikeLike