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Archive for the ‘Moral philosophy’ Category
October 15th, 2009
October 14th, 2009
Category: Climate change, Energy and Environment, Middle East Politics, Moral philosophy, Nationalism, Politics and Leadership, Uncategorized
If you’re still collecting evidence that a society built on extractive wealth is liable to moral pathology, put this one in your dossier. The Saudis are demanding that if we use less of their climate-toxic export, we should pay them (and the other oil-exporting countries) for what we don’t buy.
Let us pause in awe at [...]
October 6th, 2009
Category: Commerce and its discontents, Energy and Environment, Literature, Moral philosophy, Religion
…for a man to write this well every day.” But somehow, Thoreau could.
July 8th, 2009
Category: Health Care, Moral philosophy
Hilzoy takes on the “rationing” argument against health reform. Her argument is unmatched, and unmatchable.
June 1st, 2009
Category: Moral philosophy, Terrorism and its control
There’s a not-absurd moral definition of “murder” that would include abortion. It would also include suicide. People who think suicide is murder in the eye of God (which is the traditional Christian belief) don’t insist on making it a crime. Saying “abortion is murder” and calling a physician who performs abortions a “baby killer” on Fox News is different from a seminar-room argument.
May 29th, 2009
What kind of person seems to insist on torturing other people for political purposes and on blowing the heads of off animals for seemingly no reason at all?
May 7th, 2009
A big difference between what everyone calls a “carbon tax” and I, at least so far, stubbornly call a climate injury charge (CIC) (because it’s more accurate and anyway this is my blog post and I can do what I want) and a cap-and-trade (CAT) system is (i) neither an economic nor a political tactics [...]
March 10th, 2009
Category: Moral philosophy
A score of infants die every year because parents forget that they are strapped into their car-seats. You can think about that as a problem with the parents, or with the car-seats. You can ask why the parents were so neglectful, or why the car-seats weren’t equipped with alarms.
February 5th, 2009
Three moral arguments Obama could make against protectionism in the stimulus.
