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arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years ago
Making the World Better
If you believe Nick Hanauer and Eric Liu, libertarians are nuts. In a recent commentary, they gave a litany of reasons for “Why libertarian society is doomed to fail.” The…
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arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years ago
On Assessing Arguments
Let’s say you believe X is true. You know that many smart, well-educated people believe X — including you! — but also that many smart, well-educated people disbelieve X. If you…
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arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years ago
What Atheism Offers: Justifying a Life’s Purpose
There exists a need among theists to justify life’s purpose. Far from being content with self made goals, with personal achievements set by the individual for his own existential…
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arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years ago
Abandoning Superstition: Why I Don’t Believe In God
If you take a look at the history of ideas from the Enlightenment onward, an unmistakable trend is the steady abandonment of superstition. Weather patterns aren’t caused by…
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arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years ago
Why Religious Arguments Don’t Have a Place in Politics
Religion has no place in policy debates. Because of the special nature of faith-based beliefs and values, religious arguments cannot bring anything valuable to the table when…
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arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years ago
Intelligent Design’s Logical Fallacies
The many articles on Newsvine regarding creationism and intelligent design have sparked a good deal of comments from proponents of those views, several expressing the same tired…
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arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years ago
“The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism” by Timothy Keller
Timothy Keller’s The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism was a random find. I’d returned a handful of books to the library and was looking for something to listen to…
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arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years ago
Practical Political Philosophy and Will Kymlicka’s Endnote 42
Confusions of the real and the ideal underly far too many policy debates. Libertarians, for instance, often assume perfectly functioning markets and compare them to genuinely…
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arossp (27)in #arossp • 6 years ago
It’s Okay To Kill: A Libertarian Argument for the Death Penalty
For those of us who believe in limited government and the fallibility of human certainty, the death penalty can pose quite a problem. Is it ever okay to kill someone because of…
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arossp (27)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
What 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 recently asked on Twitter whether my libertarianism is of the…
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arossp (27)in #starwars • 7 years ago
The Last Jedi Betrays the Original Trilogy and its Heroes
Through sheer storytelling laziness, it tells us that nothing that came before mattered. The Last Jedi is the most disappointing Star Wars movie since Attack of the…
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arossp (27)in #anarchism • 7 years ago
Decentralization and privacy are inevitable — in tech and in government.
Good tech principles will become good governance principles, whether governments want them to or not. Decentralization and encryption/privacy are good principles for digital…
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arossp (27)in #crypto • 7 years ago
Technology, Radical Liberty, and Freedom Without Permission
Decentralization will bring about a radically freer and more dynamic world, and without waiting for the blessing of government. Decentralized, DIY Beginnings I got my…
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arossp (27)in #free-speech • 7 years ago
Free Speech and the Whims of College Kids
When I was in middle school, my history class staged a walkout. I don’t recall the reasons, but I’m sure at the time we all thought them righteous and just. I’m also sure that if…
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arossp (27)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
The Humble Case for Liberty
The virtue of humility is found in recognizing our limits — and that humility ought to make fans of limited government. I could be wrong about pretty much anything. What I…
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arossp (27)in #movies • 7 years ago
Has 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 Avatar sequels. It’s pretty striking, really, how quickly…
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arossp (27)in #politics • 7 years ago
America’s Hyperbole Problem
Ours has become a culture of hyperbole. Nothing characterizes American social interaction, mediated through politics and social media, more than our need to assure ourselves, and…
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arossp (27)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
How Aristotle Predicted Twitter and the Alt-Right
I’m rereading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for the umpteenth time, and a passage early on struck me as informative about much that’s going on in American culture today. It…
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