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Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021_ pronouns are _, _, and _. They may not be written or pronounced, for you are not worthy.
The Ruling Bullshits of Our Time
Friday, July 2nd, 2021I put this together in just a half hour or so after talking to a friend who remarked upon how much nonsense we were supposed to believe. Note that I didn't even have to talk about the temporary bullshits of the current news cycle, and I haven't mentioned any of ...
Mín Pronouns
Thursday, January 14th, 2021Here are mín preferred pronouns. Ic am currently identifying as masculine singular; if this changes the guide will be updated. It is your responsibility to check this noticeboard before attempting any pronominal reference to ensure compliance and avoid offence. (The acute accent signs mark long vowel sounds. The letter 'g' in ...
Confucians can torture
Monday, May 8th, 2017I asked Sam Crane at Useless Tree: Are there, in fact, any arguments against torture in Chinese philosophy that aren't basically utilitarian? If there aren't, then could there have been? In Western philosophy our arguments are usually from appeal to various notions of 'human rights', but that wouldn't be possible for ...
Thoughts on Torture
Monday, May 8th, 2017Christopher Hitchens has followed in the footsteps of Steve Harrigan and subjected himself to the process known as 'waterboarding' in order to be able to report more insightfully on just what it is that is the focus of so much controversy. He reports that it is clearly torture and that ...
A Modest Proposal for Middle-East Peace
Sunday, May 7th, 2017Context UN resolution 242 calls for a withdrawal to secure and recognised borders. Israel may have to accept that no conceivable borders can satisfy both criteria. The Arabs maintain a maximalist (or very nearly) interpretation which insists on Israeli withdrawal to the 1948 borders, but these are impossible for Israel , given ...
The Intrinsic Value of Plants
Sunday, May 7th, 2017The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology has issued a report, "The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants," which declares that the ‘dignity’ of plants must be considered in our handling of them. Apparently "living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are ...
On Castro’s Resignation
Sunday, May 7th, 2017Well, no, not really. The title should really be something like ‘Thoughts on the Occasion of Castro’s Resignation;’ but then people might expect poetry. All I wish to do here is make some remarks with reference to a conversation that I had with a small group of graduate students a ...
The Three State Solution
Sunday, May 7th, 2017When people say that they support an Arab state in the West Bank and Gaza that is ‘contiguous’ I wonder what they think that word means. How do they propose that the Gaza Strip is to become contiguous with the West Bank? Geography seems to be their enemy here, more ...