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In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I think there is malice in such a case because I’m intending to emotionally hurt or disrespect you. What everyone was supposed to agree is absent here — and that would make the action wrong if it were present &#82…

One last, broader point. I know that not everyone shares my wholesale rejection of moral luck, but you don’t have to go as far as that to think that there’s something wrong with examples of wrongness where the wrongness of an act turns on h…

You: “for an action to be a wronging of a person is for it to be an action worthy of victim resentment.” This is a smart-ass objection, I realize, but your formulation has to exclude self-wronging. A person can wrong himself, but it strikes…

You: Second, then, suppose that I grab your pen and use it for a couple of minutes, quite reasonably thinking you will not miss it. But you do. You need the pen to write down something extremely important and now you don’t have it and cannot write down…

You: First, suppose that I insult you, but do so on the basis of believing, with iron-clad justification, that you insulted me first. So my mindset is not one of lack of regard for you in the relevant sense (because the malice here is retaliatory). My …

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In reply to butimbeautiful. Well, we just disagree on the trans issue. I do think that gender dysphoria is a case where the body is one gender and the psychological dispositions another. I knew a small handful of people in that situation who went throu…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Well yeah, that does seem ironic that your views are cancelled. Mind you, I’ve recently done some minor cancelling myself, mostly because the person, who was advancing pro Putin and anti western views, was doing so very…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. This topic really deserves a post of its own, but in reviewing the readings for my conference, I now see why Akyol holds the view he does about the Mu’tazilites as exemplars of toleration. Much of the conference I&#8…