Life
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Wedded
Is traditional marriage an outmoded financial transaction between a man and the father of the bride that guarantees that the woman is treated as an owned item, as property? The traditions that we associate with it are those of a transaction; the asking for the hand of the daughter and the father paying for the… Continue reading
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A Race to the Bottom
In any relationship the person who cares the least has the power to dominate the dynamic, the power to make the other person abide by their vision of how the relationship will pan out. In any business the ambition is to failure and leadership is a position the deserved are mostly excluded from. I am… 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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In Defence of Lying
Can lying be justified? This question automatically prejudices the debate in that it is the act of not telling the truth rather than the act of telling the truth that is asked to justify itself. this automatically pre-supposes that there must be some inherent virtue in communicating perceived truth and some inherent fault in deliberately… Continue reading
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