Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to <a href=”https://prosociallibertarians.com/2022/07/25/locke-and-land-acknowledgements/comment-page-1/#comment-253″>Dan W</a>. Perhaps you’re right, Dan, and the US Gov’t also never viewed native peoples as having any legitimate claims. If that’s right, so much the worse for the US Gov’t (I’m a philosopher, not a historian). Yet, there had been some examples earlier of folks — Roger Williams at the…

In reply to John Davenport. No federal law on abortion – in either direction – would be constitutional, because regulating abortion isn’t one of Congress’s enumerated powers, nor is it implied by those powers. And if you disagre…

Also I agree with Mr. Brazier that there is no reason to penalize a state for offering women (a) assistance in affording child-care and (b) advice and support on adoption if they wish to consider that route. These are perfectly good options, whereas ab…

Thanks for the discussion. There is always some risk of “revenge” effects in reply to a boycott, but the advocates have the advantage of a single-issue focus. For this one to work, it is not required that corporations leave the worst states…

I agree also that we cannot expect police officers or private security guards to risk very likely death against extremely steep odds against assailants with armor-piercing weapons and body armor of their own. Which is why the arms race will lead to pol…

Thanks for all these valuable comments and debates. I agree that giving small arms to many people in a population is unlikely to protect them much from external invasion, and could lead to lots of internal problems (witness Libya after 2012; possibly s…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. While I don’t see how that was morally justified – does treating someone for the results of self-mutilation make one complicit in the mutilation? – it’s well short of Irfan’s nightmare of poli…