Justice
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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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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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