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
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
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
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
A code makes you free
Living and dying by an ethical code makes you free. We are all constrained by those around us. By the
The good man is more dangerous than the egoist
A person who is driven by self-interest is only so dangerous. They cannot give their life to inflict harm on
Don't attack policies/ideas because of what they symbolise
(Epistemic Status: Uncertain. Many obvious counterarguments. At best a general rule with many, many exceptions)
In debating a few years
Blood like Water
I met a girl at work who wanted to join the reserves. When I asked her why, she talked about
Two kinds of bad people
There are two kinds of bad people. There are people who are bed because they lack morals. There are people
Large Quality differentials are exponential force multipliers
In military terms, quality and quantity can be conceptualised as being convertible. e.g: an army of 1000 tribal warriors