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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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17
Dec

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
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17
Dec

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
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11
Dec

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
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06
Dec

Blood like Water

I met a girl at work who wanted to join the reserves. When I asked her why, she talked about
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25
Nov

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
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31
Oct

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
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