03
Feb
Against torture
If you read the public discourse, the standard argument for torture is that in some situations the moral harm of
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Srdjan Miletic
06
Jan
Not all good things are just
There is a distinction between whether an act or event was good and whether it was right. Goodness refers to
06
Jan
Infinite regress, circularity or axiomatic beliefs. Pick one.
I spent some time talking about metaphysics with my other half. There are physical facts. Jupiter pulls smaller things towards
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03
Jan
2018: Year 1 in Review
I started this blog with a post on the 14th of October, 2017. I mostly posted random collections of links
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31
Dec
Impossible Problems
(Epistemic Status: Uncritical Brain Dump. Read at your own risk. May contain raw cancer)
The world is so very large
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31
Dec
We burnt our own history
(Epistemic Status: Polemical. No lies but meaningful omissions)
When I read conservative websites, the more intellectual ones, they see the
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31
Dec
Is Paying Taxes As Morally Weighty as Murder?
A while ago I wrote about a person who chose to join the military without giving any real thought to
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31
Dec
Genetically Engineered Children and Moral Panic
Hu JianKui and his team created a genetically engineered human baby. Many of the news articles that followed labelled his
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30
Dec
What does a broad conception of free speech actually look like?
In my last post I argued against narrow, legalistic conceptions of free speech. In doing so I implicitly endorse a
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17
Dec
Against legalistic conceptions of free speech
I think back to the day I met my girlfriend. We talked about free speech. Someone said that as long
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