Justice
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Keep people as pets?
People are not property, or are they? A person cannot own another person, but they can control another person through processes of coercion or manipulation. In every situation, your choice to participate is based on a negotiation in the form of an offer that meets your wish, a manipulation that meets some need, or in Continue reading
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Was this always a tactic?
Ok, so I’m not saying I believe this is going on, but I do wonder, and I do like to speculate. The case is a prominent musical icon who is enjoying a rather purple patch in her career right now. One where it might be almost impossible to avoid her in media. I remember this Continue reading
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Wrongly aimed sympathy
A farming lad or lass, she grows up in the countryside surrounded by nature, the job is hers for life if she wants it and is willing to work hard, the house to live in is free. Her parents will build a bungalow on the land somewhere, no planning permission required just building regs, and Continue reading
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A distinction of wrongs
Today I return to a fascinating and oft misunderstood facet of human freedom, the argument against having our words restrained before we say them. Wallace, not the guy with the dog, has been in the news and we’re all making judgements as usual on what he is accused of. At the point of writing this Continue reading
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End the traditions
I do not wear a poppy…. I’m about to be rather controversial, to say something that many will argue with. I would urge you to first think, then react. We will examine a tradition that I think I understand, that I personally have been very close to and involved in, but I have come to Continue reading
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You didn’t ask!
My TikTok feed is full of white men marching the streets of London calling for an end to immigration. These guys have a cause, not one I believe in, but one they feel strongly about. It made me wonder if they had had any children? I assumed that most of them must have, these are Continue reading
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A very big picture, painted with a very small brush
Why are we all scared? Statistically we are safer than we have ever been. Pinker wrote the book “the better angels of our nature”, in it he claims that research has shown that this era is less violent, less cruel, and more peaceful than any period in history. Walking with my fiancé we discussed the Continue reading
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Are there unforgivable things?
I watch the news, so do you. We make judgments on what we see and we comment to our spouses about how we think the perpetrators of the crimes we are told of should be treated, how they would be treated if it were up to us. I suspect one of the reasons we feel Continue reading
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A writing wish
If there is one TV series I wish I’d written it would be black mirror, it’s just so fudging clever. Most Sci-fi and fantasy, not sure this is the correct genre, postulates the idea of an alternative, a future trajectory, a misunderstood past event, or a clean slate after a disaster. Some imagine myths, some Continue reading
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I’d eat the forbidden meat…
I’d eat a human… Weird thing to say that, but in some circumstances I believe it to be true. Peter Singer, a guy I am a big fan of, postulated the idea that animals are no different to people and people are no different to animals, we just happen to be smarter and more able Continue reading
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