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I'll never forget the night I stopped my mom dead in her tracks when my two year old son didn't want to wear a jacket on our way outside. "you're such a bad boy"; "you stop that right there! He's not a bad boy, he's a good boy who doesn't want to wear a jacket right...
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I'm confused by UPB; I've spent a few days thinking about how the principle operates with regards to testing moral theories (example: the morality, immorality, or amorality of assault, rape, theft, etc.), and yet I'm not able to understand why certain actions (assault, for example) are necessarily...
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A talk given at the second annual Libertopia Conference October 22, 2011 Humphrey’s Half Moon Inn San Diego, California My brother and I scrapped a lot as kids. Since he was a couple of years older and I was a brattish younger brother, I was on the receiving end of a lot of rough behavior which...
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The following represents a mash-up of my responses to these three different discussions... Dear Left: Corporatism is Your Fault The One Question that nearly everybody fails to answer What Crooked Timber Liberals do not want you to know ************************************************* In the Garden of...
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When I express my desire to not hit, verbally abuse or shame my children, I'm treated like a freak at family gatherings; everyone tiptoes around the subject, trying not to give me a reason to talk about it. On top of that, since when is not lying such a revolutionary idea? People act like I'm...
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Stefan is so cool! I recently watched his Beautiful Freedom video that somebody posted on the Ron Paul forums. Really great stuff! As great as the video was...there's an issue that I would like to challenge Stefan on. Stefan and I see eye to eye on how markets work but we differ in that he insists...
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What moral obligations do human beings have to animals? I know this subject has come up before on these forums, but I have yet to find a satisfactory answer. Is UPB applicable to non-human beings? If so, does it apply to all animals or just certain species? Does it apply to insects? What about plants...
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Stef, Please consider doing a Freedomain radio youtube review on the Harrison Bergeron Movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmEOI5zwFMM I am offering to contribute to some of the costs of creating such a video and I would be happy to help in the editing of footage (I have a better quality version than...
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[quote user="Chris R"]If you or anyone else is interested, I can try my hand at giving a better overview of Desirism. Just let me know if you're interested. Though I don't want to get this thread off topic, so if you are interested I'll make another thread once you let me know....
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Hey guys. It's been a while since I've been in any UPB debates or discussions or really even thought much about morality. But I've seen some recent posts about UPB and thought I would post an article I wrote on my blog a couple of months ago. It's a brief explanation of how I find myself...