Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. the statement by the head of the Ayn Rand Institute is quite appalling but not unexpected and pretty much the statement of the Israeli president as well: ‘there are no innocent civilians in Gaza’. the funny thing …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. That thread is atrocious but this comment is probably the most benign out of it. ‘The proper goal is to destroy the enemy’s fighting capacity AND its will to continue fighting. Any civilians casualties along that …

In reply to Michael P. It’s an understatement to say that the people of Gaza have been caged. They’ve been wantonly murdered as surely as the Israelis victimized on 10/7. As on 10/7, Israel has lumped non-combatants with combatants, killed …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. very interesting analysis. Yes everyone was quick to condemn Hamas like it all started on 10/7. Apparently caging people in and taking away their dignity and future wasn’t happening all these years. I think for this rea…

First, the concept appears to be instrumental. So (a) it cannot predicate any sort of value to well-being itself or (b) to elements of well-being that there seems to be non-instrumental reason for one to value and promote independently of their impact …

In reply to Michael P. Well, context matters, and I don’t know the context you have in mind (though I think I can imagine it). But I guess I would say that the right of self-defense is all of those things at once: absolute, qualified, and conditi…

sorry i’m going to throw at you another query I keep reading about this ‘absolute right to self-defense’ is there such a concept? or is the right to self-defence qualified and conditional? LikeLike