Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I vote Chomsky sticks to other subjects where he is apparently an impressive expert. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Well, I’ve nothing further to add on the first two points. On the third, though – in my opinion the response to COVID has been one of public regulators screwing up by the numbers, from first to last. The vaccines …

In reply to mlyoung57. If you don’t telegraph your desire to settle, you may never settle. If you wait for Russia not just to get weaker, but to regard itself as fundamentally defeated and desperate for a settlement on unfavorable terms, you may …

In reply to Michael Brazier. Your first comment is simply a concession. If libertarians bite the bullet you mention, they’ve conceded the point I’m making through the experiment. The idea of dealing with medical harm entirely through malpra…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Generally, if one is in a conflict, the prospects for settlement more to one’s favor (whether or not morality and justice are decisively on one’s side) get better as one’s opponent’s relative position …

In reply to mlyoung57. I think the answer to that is really, really simple: time is running out on the possibility of a negotiated settlement. Every day that we telegraph the total unseriousness of our “negotiating posture”–in other w…

At the risk of being drawn into an argumentative quagmire… Though there is certainly a danger that we (or the UK or Poland or NATO or Zelensky) will take (or are taking) our moral rhetoric too seriously, why not think that this rhetoric is part o…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Just saw the Freeman interview, and am totally on board. LikeLike

Here’s the Freeman interview to which Chomsky alludes. I haven’t seen the whole thing, and can’t vouch for it beyond what Chomsky says. LikeLike