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The Legitimate State’s Right to Control Immigration
A quick note before beginning: I wrote this as a member of an extant state, in the real world. I didn’t waste my time drawing up a libertarian argument for the way things should be, and especially not under ideal … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Aliens and Citizens, anarchism, DREAM Act, DREAMers, flood of immigrants, freedom of association, freedom of movement, Immigration, Immigration and freedom of association, immigration crisis, Joseph Carens, libertarians on immigration, luck egalitarian, Mexican border, Mexicans, Mexico, open borders, relation equality, statism, Texas immigration crisis, Texas immigration flood
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White Privilege: A Brief Inspection
My Dear Readers, The following is a brief inspection of the theory of white privilege. I was forced by a terrible professor of mine to write a piece on white privilege as a way of making amends for offending her … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Writing
Tagged crux of the matter, error of my ways, intellectual honesty, intellectual integrity, kendall clark, oppression, Peggy McIntosh, philosophy, political correctness, political incorrectness, politically correct, politically incorrect, politics, Racism, racist, reason, road to damascus, saul on the road to damascus, WEB DuBois, whiskey, White Privilege, white supremacy, writing
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The Eggshells of Racism: Tread Lightly
Black women. Two words that, without any additional context, are completely innocuous. There is no further meaning or semantic content within the conventional implicature about the descriptive, “two black women.” Suppose then that additional content is furnished, say, that you … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Personal Life, Philosophy, Politics, Writing
Tagged conventional implicature, conversational implicature, ethnicity, Frege, Grice, implicature, language, PC, philosophy of language, political correctness, politically correct, principle of cooperation, race, Racism, super maxim, supermaxim
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J.S. Mill’s “On Liberty”: The Case Against Paternalism
A note before the reading: This entry is pure philosophy. Once I am able to better wrap my mind around some bewildering events that recently transpired with a certain someone, I’ll try to write about it. For now, there are … Continue reading
A Leviathan is the answer to Mid East turmoil?
Has anyone yet noticed the pattern of events in the Middle East? Surely some of us have read the daily news about the region over… well, however long they’ve been alive, and noticed something quite peculiar about the people who … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Questions, Religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Afghanistan, agression, Egypt, Fireball whiskey, Hobbes, Irag, Iran, Leviathan, Lybia, middle east, state of nature, Syria, Thomas Hobbes, war, whiskey
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Locke and the right to punish
So here’s a work up on the right to punish as communicated by John Locke in the Two Treatises. A more thorough analysis is surely possible, and desirable, but I had an upper limit of 2000 words, so this is … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Crime, John Locke, Justice, Law, natural law, Natural Rights, philosophy, Rights, Two Treatises of Government
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