Category: Philosophy
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Informal Fallacies
by Jason Stotts One of the best ways to improve the clarity of your thinking and arguing is to learn the informal fallacies. A fallacy is an error of reasoning whereby your conclusion does not follow from your premises. Importantly, it is not that the content of the premise is false (that is its own…
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Maybe Our Country Will be Free After All
by Jason Stotts While states such as Massachusetts already have socialized medicine and states like California are trying to pass it, I’m encouraged to see that some states are taking a principled approach based on individual rights and are moving to prevent socialized healthcare from ever entering their states. The recent article in Business Week…
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Australia Hates Small Breasts
by Jason Stotts I blogged about the impending Australian internet censorship back in December, but now it appears that Australia is out to lampoon itself for me. The proposed Australian Government clampdown on smut just got a whole lot broader, as news emerged of a ban on small breasts and female ejaculation in adult material.…
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More Climategate Faux Pas
by Jason Stotts It seems the IPCC science is looking shoddier and shoddier. Apparently the claims about the loss of 40% of the Amazon rain forest is from a green activist’s paper dealing with forest fires (i.e. unrelated to global warming) and the paper was written to try to influence policy. In the Fourth Assessment…
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Oh California…
by Jason Stotts Living in California, I am constantly surprised by the asinine laws here and the complete disregard of individual rights and freedoms. Sometimes, however, California goes so far as to be comical (in the bad way). Apparently a school district in Riverside California has removed the dictionaries from the classrooms. No, it’s not…
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Objectivist Blog Carnival
Welcome to the January 21, 2010 edition of objectivist round up. Objectivism is the Philosophy of Ayn Rand. She defined it, most eloquently, as a “philosophy for living on Earth.” In that spirit, we present this week’s round up. Myrhaf presents A Nation’s Unity posted at The New Clarion, saying, “Here is a look at…
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Peter Singer Loves Animals (Too Much)
An Application of Objectivism to an Issue of Sexual Ethics by Jason Stotts There are many taboos in our society. Some taboos come from sex-negative religions that denigrate the body in favor of an alleged immortal soul, while other taboos exist for valid reasons. Now, among the later class are things that are perverse: that…
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Healthcare and Abortion
by Jason Stotts If you are against socialized medicine, you are also against the government controlling abortion. Either the government should control healthcare or it should not. Otherwise you end up with this absurd (religious reich) position: (via WickedGayBlog)