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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Diachronic Fairness by Desert and Merit (Part 1 of 2) | Policy of Truth
[…] initial possibility is that reward is a kind of mirror-image of punishment. If punishment is (as a previous chapter/post suggested) a negatively-valenced instance of diachronic fairness (DF3), then reward is a positively-valenced […] Li…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on McCormick-Taber Seminar in Philosophy Redux by Desert and Merit (Part 1 of 2) | Policy of Truth
[…] finished Sher’s Desert last week, the MTSP Discussion is on to discussing HLA Hart’s The Concept of Law, but I’m going to spend the next few […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Desert and Merit (Part 1 of 2)
Having finished Sher’s Desert last week, the MTSP Discussion is on to discussing HLA Hart’s The Concept of Law, but I’m going to spend the next few weeks hammering out summaries of the last four chapters of Sher’s book, just for the hell of it. I’ve had to break my discussion of Chapter 7 of…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Waiting Is the Hardest Part: Booster Shots Revisited by Hit Me with Your Best Shot | Policy of Truth
[…] brother Suleman and I have (very incompletely) argued the case in favor of boosters here, here, and here. As front-line health care workers (he’s a physician, I worked in OR EVS), we got our first […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Who Made WHO: COVID-19, Global Class Warfare, and Booster Shots by Hit Me with Your Best Shot | Policy of Truth
[…] dose. My brother Suleman and I have (very incompletely) argued the case in favor of boosters here, here, and here. As front-line health care workers (he’s a physician, I worked in OR EVS), we got […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on COVID Booster Shot Meets Health Care Monopoly by Hit Me with Your Best Shot | Policy of Truth
[…] second dose. My brother Suleman and I have (very incompletely) argued the case in favor of boosters here, here, and here. As front-line health care workers (he’s a physician, I worked in OR EVS), we […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Hit Me with Your Best Shot
Well, it looks like the pro-booster side has essentially won the argument, at least in the US, over whether boosters ought to be given for recipients of the Pfizer-Biontech COVID vaccine, six months+ after the second dose. My brother Suleman and I have (very incompletely) argued the case in favor of boosters here, here, and…
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(Policy of Truth) The “Other Side” of the Holocaust
My response to a (perfectly legitimate) critique of the Texas directive demanding that teachers teach “both sides” of every issue, including the Holocaust: Irfan Khawaja October 16, 2021 at 11:08 am This is a fundamentally idiotic directive with a fundamentally idiotic motivation. But if they’re really duty-bound to abide by it, why not teach the…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Bishop John Shelby Spong, RIP by Irfan Khawaja
It turns out that I couldn’t attend the service, but my father did. The livestream: LikeLike
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