Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Who Made WHO: COVID-19, Global Class Warfare, and Booster Shots by sherida yoder
Excellent analysis! I hate when I read how the WHO said giving boosters (or a 3 shot series of vaccines) is like giving a life jacket to those who already have one while others are drowning. Your imagery (“lease on life that is now expiring”…
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(Policy of Truth) Who Made WHO: COVID-19, Global Class Warfare, and Booster Shots
Who pick up the bill when who made who? Ain’t nobody told you? –AC/DC On August 18th, The New York Times ran a story on the front of its feed titled “Booster Shots ‘Make a Mockery of Vaccine Equity,’ the WHO’s Africa director says.” In case that statement sounds needlessly inflammatory and emotionally manipulative, here’s…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on how there might be no “problem of punishment” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. That strikes me as a distinction without a difference. What would follow by way of action-guiding prescriptions if punishment were “permissible” but literally no one one had more reason than not to impose any? In gene…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on how there might be no “problem of punishment” by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Another relevant point: I’m interested only in evaluating whether or not punishment is morally permissible. To say that punishment is justified is to say more, viz., that punishment is permissible and that (in this or t…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on how there might be no “problem of punishment” by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. It is entirely possible that I have not addressed any argument from Boonin. My impression, though, was that his, and other, arguments (to the effect that there is sufficient prima facie reason to believe that punishment ̵…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on how there might be no “problem of punishment” by Irfan Khawaja
That argument against Boonin doesn’t work. His argument doesn’t depend in any essential way on the claim that the infliction of harm is a defeasible norm. He defines punishment as the deliberate infliction of harm for an offense, then argue…
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(Policy of Truth) Retributivism, Its Discontents, and Some Malcontents
Chapter 5 of Sher’s Desert, “Deserved Punishment,” is a desert-based defense of retributive punishment intended to defend the claim that “persons who have acted wrongly…deserve to be punished.” All of the participants in our Zoom discussion agreed that this was the weakest of the five chapters we’ve read so far, and all of us (I…
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(Policy of Truth) how there might be no “problem of punishment”
Should we think that punishment, because it involves intentionally inflicting harm without consent, is defeasibly impermissible (much like it is defeasibly impermissible, at least in private life, to initiate coercion against other people)? I suspect not, for a very simple reason: not intentionally inflicting harm on others (without their consent) might well not be the…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The JBMDL Afghan Account by Irfan Khawaja
Beneath contempt. First, “we” occupy a foreign country for twenty years. Then we lie about it for twenty years. Then we make promises we know we can’t keep. Then we break them. Then we make excuses for breaking them, including our un…
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(QC RSS) Posturing
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