Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to mlyoung57. That’s why I’ve been so focused on clear, paradigmatic cases where the culpability is clear and/or where the dangers are stark. The latter disjunct is why fascism keeps coming up. The clearest cases for cancellation a…

In reply to Michael Brazier. I’m returning to this after the hiatus I mentioned. I really can’t make sense of your argument against transitivity. You say that for my case to succeed, “You would have to show that Texas Oil helped Franc…

In reply to sean samis. Agreed. I had never imagined us as a tag-team duo, Sean, but life is full of surprises. LikeLike

In reply to mlyoung57. My longer response to your comment is mostly included in my response to David Potts, but I guess I would ask: can you think of any fact pattern that would justify threatening (a) a 72-year-old cancer patient with (b) jail time (c…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Two articles describing the “aftermath”: Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/21/michigan-judge-apologizes-cancer-lawn-krot/ Detroit Free Press: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/mic…

In reply to David Potts. @davidlpotts I think my response to your comment can be summarized as either “Big deal,” or “All’s well that ends well,” or both. First of all, you understate and minimize what Krot did. She threat…

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David; Epistemically, it’s hard to evaluate Judge Krot on the basis of this incident because she offers no explanation, only an apology in which she doesn’t even describe her misbehavior, much less explain it. She doesn’t even refer to the person she m…

Hi Irfan, At least this time we have an actual cancelation: An outraged mob moralistically calling for someone to be removed from her job. (But why do you call it “woke”? There’s nothing woke about the mob that I can see, or anything …