Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to mlyoung57. I think I take issue with the idea of being morally required. If an individual or society don’t think that a practice is wrong, then who or what requires them? Only, presumably, another individual or society with greater fo…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Testament to a long friendship perhaps 🙂 LikeLiked by 1 person

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In reply to Roderick T. Long. It’s conceivable that Motorhead was alluding to ZZ Top. “TV Dinners” dates to 1983, “In the Name of Tragedy” to 2004. So the dates work, and so does the vibe. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. One can (and I probably should have) run the same argument, tying the abstractions to a concrete, small-scale case — say achieving full justice in the distribution of criminal policing resources across the different nei…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I can’t help adding that Israeli politics is very instructive here. For present purposes, ignore the fact that Israel is an apartheid society that treats its Arab population as second- or third-class citizens or non-cit…

In reply to mlyoung57. Well, I haven’t read Estlund on this, so I can’t literally sign onto his view, but it doesn’t, from your description, sound wrong to me. You make the view sound wrong because you’ve sort of baked unreasona…

In reply to mlyoung57. That’s one way to go, but I’m skeptical of supererogation as a concept. That’s a long story which I’ll spare you right now. LikeLike