Justice
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Are we just horrific by nature?
Liberals blame poverty on the poor as a justification for not feeling the pangs of their conscience, that’s a theory I have believed for a long time. It comes from a criticism of the liberal ideal made by various social theorists and given to me in a YouTube video by the great Rick Roderick. I’m Continue reading
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Can a reaction to prejudice be prejudice?
It’s 2023 and I just watched a spot on a well known breakfast time tv show about inclusive hairdressing, the woman is running a salon that caters specifically to the needs of trans and other persons from the rather vague groups involved in self identification. I wondered if by creating this principle that person was Continue reading
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Power corrupts us, do we corrupt power?
I’ve done a little bit of guest lecturing, not as much as I intended to though, and I hold court regularly when anyone is too tired to flee or is maybe being nice and humouring my egotistical need to express everything I think about. Let’s halt there for a moment though, I’m not a preacher Continue reading
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The problem with winning…
The Hunt for Red October is a film about how a submarine captain decides to act when he realises that one side, his side, may have just gained a massive tactical advantage in the standoff between the superpowers by developing a stealth weapon. To restore the balance, and therefore the relative ongoing peace that has Continue reading
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Luck egalitarianism
Introduction Egalitarianism is the idea that there can be made fairness, not the idea that there is fairness. “Life is not fair” a statement that may come from parent to child when explaining why they must put up with a situation just because that’s the way it is. In this essay I will focus on Continue reading
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The just
Jus ad bella, jus in bellum – the justice of war and the justice in war. Whether first the action that is going to war is justifiable and secondly whether the actions taken during war are justifiable. Often these are confused, persons believe that if you can justify the act of war you by implication Continue reading
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The Will to Stupid
I’d love to be thick, joyous it would be, and I’d fail to sit in wonder of the idiocy that surrounded me because I would be in it and of it. I sound cruel and aloof I know, call me so if you like, I don’t mind, it’s the easiest reaction. Who does this asshole Continue reading
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Missing Hitch
So here I am in 2015 and the greatest thing I could hope for, have hoped for, has happened, a democratic socialist has been elected to the position of leader of the Labour Party. Attacked from all sides during his campaign and continuing to be attacked from within and by the press after his (landslide) Continue reading
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Pedagogically
On the position of Kaczynski, Pedagogically In an educational society but not of that society, the dissent of a tutor based on such paradigmatic reasoning as trying to act as if we were educationally free in a system that simply labels itself free but stands up to no scrutiny of this postulate. This is the awakened individual Continue reading
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A defense of freedom
Who can tell me what I can read? what I may look at? what I should think about? That is the question we must ask ourselves in the light of recent events. It is attractive to entertain the notion of safety in our lives at the detriment of a few freedoms that most of us Continue reading
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