Showing posts with label values. Show all posts
Showing posts with label values. Show all posts
Monday, August 21, 2023

Shellenberger plagiarizes. Maui burns.

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Michael Shellenberger, who I don't know from anyone until he signed up for the Elon Musk shill squad on the Twitter Files , is a hack jo...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

No natural law

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I never studied  the concept of natural law, and was familiar with it mostly from conservative writings. Natural law justified discriminatio...
Monday, August 8, 2016

Who is the good American?

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It looks like the speech by Khizr Khan at the Democratic national convention was a turning point in the presidential campaign. Here is my s...
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Sunday, June 19, 2016

IF--the unlikely upside if Hillary loses

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Is it already too late to write about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the presidency? Trump has had some miserable weeks where he...
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Friday, March 11, 2016

Caring to the bitter end

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I just realized something that seems obvious in retrospect. I already knew that I was more tenacious in arguments than many. I also knew t...
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Friday, September 11, 2015

Last outpost of crazy: Ohio war

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Just imagine that you're engaged in a guerrilla war. You can pick your side: a church or a strip club. Usually, I'd pick the churc...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Painful realization: The Civil Rights Act of 1965

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In light of the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the capital of South Carolina, I've been researching and reflecting on the ...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Conservative Christians picked the wrong fight

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Conservative Christian values have been losing ground for my entire lifetime, so I'm probably not the best person to write about it. I d...
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Sunday, May 17, 2015

The many enemies of Christianity

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Somehow I managed to resist writing about how the death battle between same sex marriage and conservative Christians for twelve days, but th...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Finally, my conclusion. Marriage equality, yes. Conscience, yes.

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I've wrestled with the issue of good religious people and their objection to same-sex marriage. Long ago I saw the essential equality of...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

The high stakes of culture: Mississippi

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I continue to see the effects of culture almost everywhere. I listen for cultural differences, and the effect of culture on values and the ...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Creating his own religion

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I'm reading the long set of responses to a question posted by Rod Dreher , an orthodox Christian. He wants to know how people have lost ...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Short: Liberalism is respect, resistance, conflict, and hope

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This is a review of a book that tries to tease out the basics of liberal democracy. I won't read the book because the review explains t...
Monday, March 17, 2014

The high stakes of culture, part 1

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Wow. I'm not sure I can do justice to this topic. Today I read a long article on the influence of American media, with its liberal bias...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

One thing I learned: Cultural differences, cancer, and ACA

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I'm a strong supporter of ACA. However, I didn't realize until this fall how much my middle-class background contributes to that vie...
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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Last outpost of crazy: Conversative haters of Mandela

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Goddamn communist, pinko, terrorist murderer Nelson Mandela. Also destroyer of South Africa. That's Nelson Mandela according to some  ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

One thing I learned: a case against ACA

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I'm not as open to different ideas as I would like to be. It seems to me that most people who are firmly against ACA fell into one of mo...
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Friday, December 14, 2012

Values and judgment: Judging Scalia, judging tradition

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Antonin Scalia is in trouble again with liberals and the media over his viewpoints. This happens fairly often, but with little effect on the...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Values and Judgment: Judging the values

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This is the capstone on my series about values and judgment. It will sum up my philosophy on values, making judgments, and on argumentation....
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Values and Judgment: What they don't tell you

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Values are a difficult topic, requiring more abstract discussion than other topics. Nonetheless, I'll try to make the ideas as clear as ...