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27
Jul

Why prostitution is immoral on the buy side

(TLDR: Because a significant % of prostitutes are forced/coerced into it, meaning when you sleep with a prostitute there'
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20
Jul

Links 20/08/2020

A collection of somewhat interesting things I've read or watched recently. * A look at how the US treats
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15
Jul

Thoughts on cancel culture.

Let's say there's a society where people who say the wrong thing about topic X are
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10
May

Avoiding obviously bad things

Draw one circle inside another. The inner circle is you. The outer circle is the world. One of the main
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20
Apr

Founding a tech startups is not a good way to maximize your own wellbeing

Why do people start a business? Two reasons: * Meaning * Money Let's focus only on money for now. If
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20
Apr

Massai wife sharing

I read Barefoot over the Serengeti a while back. In it David Read writes about his childhood in africa. He
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06
Apr

Ignoring the crimes of the powerful/revered

I read an article on Kemal Ataturk. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/31/the-ataturk-path-to-islamic-modernity/
19
Mar

Violence towards children in history

Childhood for most people was brutal. The notion of children as innocent and sacred and especially valuable is recent. From
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23
Feb

Legal Disfunction: Immigration Edition

I watched a show following police enforcing immigration laws in the UK. They would find someone who was an illegal
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03
Feb

Against expropriating the founder of wework

The founder of wework is held to be immoral and to have exploited and mismanaged his company, costing thousands of
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