There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being. –Barack Obama.
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Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
They spoke as if forced by truth itself
Posted in Ethics, Politics, tagged Cognitive dissonance on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is what happens
Posted in Insanity, Politics on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When those charged with enforcing the law have a monetary incentive to see the law broken. Same thing happens in the U.S. Can’t we ever get a sane political structure to handle these things? One would think that there would be an incentive to ensure that the law is followed, not the other way around.
Casus
Posted in Miscellaneous, Politics on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read this snippet on Google News:
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday night that it had missed repeated opportunities to discover what may be the largest financial fraud in history, a Ponzi scheme whose losses could run as high as…
and the first thing that came to mind was Social Security. (The actual article is [...]
Absolutely Stunning…
Posted in Politics on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
that anyone would be the least bit surprised when politicians begin distancing themselves from their campaign promises.
A Modest Proposal
Posted in Politics on November 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“One person, one vote” is a basic principle of American democracy. Everyone has an equal say in the electoral process, and no one’s vote counts for more than anyone else’s. It is frequently viewed as a fundamental, perhaps the fundamental, egalitarian political principle.
But what if it weren’t? “One person, one vote” seems reasonable because of [...]
A Comment on and an Explanation of the Election
Posted in Philosophy / Theology, Politics on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Comment: As somebody on Slashdot said, the deck chairs on the Titanic have been thoroughly, and decisively, rearranged.
Explanation: As Aristotle said,
To judge from the lives that men lead, most men, and men of the most vulgar type, seem (not without some reason) to identify the good, or happiness, with pleasure; which is the reason why [...]
And…
Posted in Politics on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We get the elected officials we deserve.
A Thought on Liberals, Bristol Palin, and Consequentialism
Posted in Ethics, Politics on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read something recently, though I’m too lazy to find the link, about certain liberal commentators calling certain conservative Christians hypocrites for refusing to criticize Bristol Palin for being pregnant out of wedlock. My first thought regarding this was “What exactly is wrong with being pregnant out of wedlock?” On further reflection, I came up [...]
Intellectual Property and Copyright Infringement
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy / Theology, Politics on September 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The notion of intellectual property seems to be a contradiction of sorts, since the intellect deals with what is universal. The very possibility of private property, I believe, arises from the fact of matter which individuates physical things such that they cannot be common to all. Because of the material nature of things, my possession [...]
