Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

There is a broad issue and a narrow one at stake here. The broad issue is whether one needs an explicit argument to drive a wedge between “the choiceworthy” and “the self-beneficial.” Scanlon thinks not, I think so. But set that…

In reply to Stephen Boydstun. I don’t think that nuclear deterrence has “worked,” except in the very narrow sense that it hasn’t (yet) led to outright, catastrophic failure. But by any broader definition of “working,&#8221…

Humans hunted many of the world’s large mammals to extinction. This threat still exists today, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

It always struck me that nuclear deterrence worked. The danger of its failure was and is real, and that was part of how it worked. Moreover, it was the correct correct moral option (contra libertarians Poole or Hummel in the context of bilateral posses…

In reply to <a href=”https://prosociallibertarians.com/2022/05/03/what-happened/comment-page-1/#comment-224″>Neera Badhwar</a>. I’ve heard a lot of stories of people who were told they were expected to move out when they turned 18 — whether or not they had already graduated. Some of them I know to be true. I don’t know how common it is today, but in the not…