arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years agoMaking the World BetterIf you believe Nick Hanauer and Eric Liu, libertarians are nuts. In a recent commentary, they gave a litany of reasons…arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years agoOn Assessing ArgumentsLet’s say you believe X is true. You know that many smart, well-educated people believe X — including you! — but also…arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years agoWhat Atheism Offers: Justifying a Life’s PurposeThere exists a need among theists to justify life’s purpose. Far from being content with self made goals, with…arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years agoAbandoning Superstition: Why I Don’t Believe In GodIf you take a look at the history of ideas from the Enlightenment onward, an unmistakable trend is the steady…arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years agoWhy Religious Arguments Don’t Have a Place in PoliticsReligion has no place in policy debates. Because of the special nature of faith-based beliefs and values, religious…arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years agoIntelligent Design’s Logical FallaciesThe many articles on Newsvine regarding creationism and intelligent design have sparked a good deal of comments from…arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years ago“The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism” by Timothy KellerTimothy Keller’s The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism was a random find. I’d returned a handful of books…arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years agoPractical Political Philosophy and Will Kymlicka’s Endnote 42Confusions of the real and the ideal underly far too many policy debates. Libertarians, for instance, often assume…arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years agoIt’s Okay To Kill: A Libertarian Argument for the Death PenaltyFor those of us who believe in limited government and the fallibility of human certainty, the death penalty can pose…arossp (27)in #philosophy • 7 years agoWhat Kind of Libertarian Are You?My libertarianism’s of an off-the-beaten-path sort, with its intellectual roots among the Ancient Greeks. I was…arossp (27)in #starwars • 7 years agoThe Last Jedi Betrays the Original Trilogy and its HeroesThrough sheer storytelling laziness, it tells us that nothing that came before mattered. The Last Jedi is the…arossp (27)in #anarchism • 7 years agoDecentralization and privacy are inevitable — in tech and in government.Good tech principles will become good governance principles, whether governments want them to or not.…arossp (27)in #crypto • 7 years agoTechnology, Radical Liberty, and Freedom Without PermissionDecentralization will bring about a radically freer and more dynamic world, and without waiting for the blessing of…arossp (27)in #free-speech • 7 years agoFree Speech and the Whims of College KidsWhen I was in middle school, my history class staged a walkout. I don’t recall the reasons, but I’m sure at the time…arossp (27)in #philosophy • 7 years agoThe Humble Case for LibertyThe virtue of humility is found in recognizing our limits — and that humility ought to make fans of limited…arossp (27)in #movies • 7 years agoHas there ever been a box office smash scifi movie with less cultural impact than Avatar?We’re on our way to four(!) Avatar sequels , which is probably the same as number of people excited about…arossp (27)in #politics • 7 years agoAmerica’s Hyperbole ProblemOurs has become a culture of hyperbole. Nothing characterizes American social interaction, mediated through politics…arossp (27)in #philosophy • 7 years agoHow Aristotle Predicted Twitter and the Alt-RightI’m rereading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for the umpteenth time, and a passage early on struck me as…
