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The strangeness of Moral Philosophy
Submitted by BilLee on Mon, 2004-07-19 06:17Earlier Brian brought up his annoyance with an Ethical Philosophy Selector quiz he had found via Gene Expression's post.
The World Wide Rant was simply confused by his results.
Which were as follows:
1. Ayn Rand (100%) Read more »
The Political Value of Being Polite and Friendly
Submitted by BilLee on Wed, 2004-07-14 12:33This is as quoted by Julian Simon at the end of his epilogue to The Ultimate Resource 2 Read more »
Tommy Chong is a Great Man
Submitted by BilLee on Sun, 2004-07-11 01:32I just learned from the Drug WarRant that Tommy Chong is free and the Feds still haven't broken him.
The Chaotic Mind and the Purpose of Philosophy
Submitted by BilLee on Thu, 2004-06-24 23:12Micha's earlier post really got me to thinking. What does one do when one's earliest memories are thoughts of suicide? Most turn to religion to help bring peace to their mind. I tried that. Although when your first memories (around age 7 for me) are suicidal, your worldview tends to be a rather amorphous agnosticism. This drew me to philosophy. (I bet you already figured out that I was talking about myself. Give yourself a reward. ;-) Read more »
Socialism and Individualism
Submitted by BilLee on Sat, 2004-05-01 05:00Many people have trouble understanding what socialism really is. We tend to fall for the line that it derives from an alternative view of economics, but that alternative view is simply a side effect of a more fundamental difference in view regarding human nature. Socialism literally does not believe in the existence of individuals or more precisely it views humans as mere components of society. It was not originally defined in opposition to capitalism. Socialism has always opposed individualism. Read more »
Wise Pacifism
Submitted by BilLee on Mon, 2004-04-26 11:20I am pacifist. I have met many pseudo-pacifists out there and I wish to provide you a basic understanding of pacifism because people operate too much from stereotypes formulated by observing the pseudo-pacifists in action. Read more »
This year we begin to earn our spacewings
Submitted by BilLee on Sun, 2004-04-11 04:48Burt Rutan looks like he is about to accomplish his dream without the government preventing him yet he might be beaten to the prize by one of the other teams around the world. These are acknowledged at the end of this article from Space.com via The United States of Earth. Read more »
Six Mistakes
Submitted by BilLee on Fri, 2004-04-09 21:31Marcus Tullius Cicero, the great Roman orator who died in 43 B.C., recorded what he considered to be the six most drastic mistakes made by humans.
Some things never change:
1. The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others.
2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed.
3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot do it ourselves.
4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not aquiring the habits of reading and study. Read more »
Regarding votes for President
Submitted by BilLee on Sun, 2004-04-04 00:34The wisdom of he who authored Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy knows few bounds:
- Douglas Adams
(I have collected more quotes than you could possibly imagine. I used to have a quotes site.)
A Libertarian welcomes the Democrats into Opposition
Submitted by BilLee on Thu, 2004-04-01 00:35The Libertarian Party is the penultimate opposition party. By its nature, it will always work to keep itself from becoming the dominant party in government. I know this is not even a possibility right now, but consider how it could play out eventually. Regardless of the flavor libertarianism to which one adheres, success can be finitely achieved politically. Success would also shift the social focus from government to culture hopefully permanently. Social conservatives and social liberals would then be battling it out in the cultural arena. Read more »