Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Diligent Paranoia by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Of course not. It’s just a thought experiment. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Who Made WHO: COVID-19, Global Class Warfare, and Booster Shots by The Waiting Is the Hardest Part: Booster Shots Revisited | Policy of Truth
[…] the time since I first ran numbers on COVID prevalence, vaccination rates, and national economic standing, the US has had both absolute increases in COVID infections (now above 50 per 100,000) and has […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) The Waiting Is the Hardest Part: Booster Shots Revisited
So here is the report from The New York Times we all could have guessed we’d find ourselves reading one of these mornings. While it is premature to conclude that the pause and retrenchment on government approval of booster vaccines will prove to be a permanent one, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out…
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( Comments for Radical Classical Liberals ) Comment on Being Pro-Choice by Nightcap | Notes On Liberty
[…] Being pro-choice Andrew J Cohen, Radical Classical Liberals […]
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( Comments for Radical Classical Liberals ) Comment on Moralism and Busybodies: From Community to Police State by Being Pro-Choice | Radical Classical Liberals
[…] What we have in both these cases is a situation where the freedom of some to live in a world where the actions of others are limited—e.g., to not give a patient a drug they oppose using or to help a woman have an abortion—is thought to outweigh the freedom of those others to…
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( Comments for Radical Classical Liberals ) Comment on Moralism, Community, and Civil Discourse by Being Pro-Choice | Radical Classical Liberals
[…] medical professionals. In both sorts of cases, we have a pernicious form of moralism at play. (See this and […]
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(Radical Classical Liberals) Being Pro-Choice
I’m pro-choice. If a woman wants to have an abortion, I believe it is her choice to do so and no one ought to stand in her way. I oppose abortion laws. Similarly, I believe that if I want to take an antibiotic, it is my choice to do so and no one ought to…
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Today
[cross-posted at facebook] Today’s a fine day an especially beautiful day the kind of day when you know just how you want to spend it but the place you want to spend it is a thousand miles away in one direction and the person you want to spend it with is a thousand miles away…
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Frodo Shrugged by Roderick
Of course Wagner had done something similar. Both Tolkien and Wagner relied on Norse myths, but what they did with the symbolism of the ring is closer to Plato’s use (and to each other’s use) than to anything in the original Norse material. (Tolkien d…
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Frodo Shrugged
[cross-posted at facebook] September 2nd is the day that Atlas Shrugged begins. (We’re shown Eddie Willers seeing the date on a gigantic calendar in the first chapter. Several other important events in the novel happen on that date as well.) September 22nd is the day that Lord of the Rings “officially” begins. (In fact we’re…
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