Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Libertarianism, Abortion, and Health Care by radgeekdotcom
In reply to Michael Brazier. Michael Brazier: If failing to implant in the right place is enough reason to deny the humanity of an ectopic fetus, you might as well argue that a grain of wheat is not really wheat unless it gets planted – which is ridicu…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Libertarianism, Abortion, and Health Care by radgeekdotcom
In reply to Michael Brazier. Michael Brazier: [SELF-DEFENSE] … The problem is that, having grown in the wrong place, the fetus will kill its mother well before it’s able to survive outside her, so leaving it there will just kill both it and her. …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Thoughts and Prayers by boydstun
Anne Lamott has a guest essay today in NYT titled “I Don’t Want to See a High School Football Coach Praying at the 50-Yard Line. “Many of us who believe in a reality beyond the visible realms, who believe in a soul that survives death, and who are hopi…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Is the United States Exceptional?
It is the week of July 4th and so I hope that everyone will once again forgive me for taking a break from our normal fare to write out an argument that I’ve had brewing for quite some time. I especially beg the indulgence of all of my international readers since I am once again…
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(QC RSS) Authentication Successful
hehe
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(Cat and Girl) Pasta All the Way Down
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Take that evildoer
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(Our World in Data) Guinea worm disease is close to being eradicated – how was this progress achieved?
In the late 1980s, there were near a million new cases of guinea worm disease recorded worldwide. In 2021, there were only 15. How was this achieved?
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Thoughts and Prayers by boydstun
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. We learned a Thomist worldview from him. And that was fine, in fact good. It was new to me. Such an extension for use of reason was new to me. Really, all I knew of the power of reason before that was what is implicitly in ma…
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(QC RSS) Multiple Factors
tfw u get 2-factored by ur friend 🙁
Got any book recommendations?