Category: “Erosophia.Blogspot”
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De-Motivational Posters
by Jason Stotts For those looking for some good holiday gifts for the person who has everything, or who just has a good sense of humor, check out Despair.com. They have a large selection of, by far, the funniest posters ever made. For example, Government: Or, the quintessential Objectivist poster: So, check out their site…
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Shermer on Rand
by Jason Stotts The latest op-ed out on Ayn Rand is now by Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic Magazine. His understanding of Rand seems to be better than some of the others and you can tell that he has a personal affinity for Objectivism. Check it out: “The Real Rogue Warrior: Ayn Rand, not Sarah…
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Say Justice
by Jason Stotts In case you haven’t seen it yet, Craig Biddle of The Objective Standard has a really nice little essay up about “saying grace” at Thanksgiving dinner called: “Don’t Say Grace, Say Justice.“ One thing I’d like to point out to my more rational readers is that if your family still doesn’t know that…
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Can You Consent to Your Own Murder?
by Jason Stotts Now that we’ve had time for people to think about our last Aporia, let me give my own opinion on the matter. I think that Cogito is fundamentally correct to say that: “you can’t consent to your own murder, just like you can’t consent to your own rape.” This distinction is important,…
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Aporia: Can You Consent to Your Own Murder?
by Jason Stotts I recently heard about the case of Armin Meiwes, a German man made famous after he was arrested in December of 2002 for eating Bernd Jurgen Brandes (who consented to both his murder and the eating of his body). Meiwes was originally tried for manslaughter, although the case was later reopened and…
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The Truth about Christianity
by Jason Stotts I saw this poster on Tumblr (without attribution) and I couldn’t resist putting it up here. In case you can’t read the poster, it says: CHRISTIANITY: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as…
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Majority of Americans Against Governmental Healthcare
by Jason Stotts In an amazing turn of events, and on the eve of the possibility of the governmental takeover of healthcare, the majority of Americans are now saying that they don’t want socialized medicine. The news comes from the latest Gallup poll done on the issue of healthcare, which they release every November. Even…
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Eternal Recurrence
by Jason Stotts Although I am a big fan of Nietzsche and I think he got many things right, I certainly do not endorse him entirely. There is much to Nietzsche that just does not make sense. As an example of this, he has a doctrine of “Eternal Return,” whereby he asserts that all that…