Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Like Rain in the Desert by Roderick T. Long
If you haven’t seen Doctor Who you can still half-get this, though not completely. https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/c760830c-b265-4aa4-8548-5ee82e335732/d5el9ai-50ef8787-daea-4039-ba52-9c212d748fa9.jpg/v1/fill/w_900,h_513…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Groundwork Books! by Groundwork Books! | Austro-Athenian Empire
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Groundwork Books!
[cross-posted at POT and facebook] Continuing the San Diego bookstores series, I chat with Jack Ran of the Groundwork Book Collective, a radical left-wing bookstore on the campus of UCSD. Topics include running a bookstore as an egalitarian collective; participating in wildcat strikes; surviving arson attacks; the dynamics of anarchist/Marxist cooperation; conflicts with the university…
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(Policy of Truth) Groundwork Books!
Continuing the San Diego bookstores series, I chat with Jack Ran of the Groundwork Book Collective, a radical left-wing bookstore on the campus of UCSD. Topics include running a bookstore as an egalitarian collective; participating in wildcat strikes; surviving arson attacks; the dynamics of anarchist/Marxist cooperation; conflicts with the university administration; what campus leftists owe…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Need and Desert by mlyoung57
Thanks. Those are helpful comments. Does a Safe Harbor element protect us only from the effects of aggregation — or something more or different from this (that is also not covered by the ‘easily enough’ element)? We definitely need pr…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Like Rain in the Desert by mlyoung57
I like your case [4]. And, in general, the idea of “blowing up” the umbrella case into myriad cases of trivial expected consequences or expected consequences that are not (or could not be) anything like a reward or punishment. A nice way of…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on COVID Booster Shot Meets Health Care Monopoly by Irfan Khawaja
It’s good to see ordinary liberals expressing some skepticism about the scientific and medical bona fides of the FDA (ht: Suleman Khawaja): LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Need and Desert by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. I’m sympathetic to what you say in the first half of your comment, but also find the whole issue rather tricky, and am reluctant to sign on to anything all that definite. I think a Rescue Principle has to be regulated by a …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Need and Desert by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I agree that Rand grounds rights on needs, but (as I don’t “need” to tell you) she’s clearer about why I need my rights to be respected than she is about why I need to respect the rights of others. …
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