If someone treats you poorly in a free market, the best option is to disassociate and share the information you acquired with other people (if you wish). However, our emotional ecosystem still wants to use mechanisms from evolution where disassociation...
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#KnifeFree? #Spineless!
Knives are what make us human, technology-wise. To try to stop people from carrying knives is to forbid them from living as humans. A knife ban is even less legitimate than a gun ban, and a gun ban isn’t legitimate...
Continue ReadingYour Limitations and the Logic of Self-Discipline
Consistency means routine, and routine means discipline. As I’ve worked to implement a new daily morning routine in the last month, I’ve had to call on more discipline than I’ve used in much of my life. If I wasn’t clear...
Continue ReadingPerfect in What Sense?
POTUS has a disturbing tendency to use more hyperbole with an inverse relationship to the likelihood of outcomes. He tweets that strikes on Syria were "perfectly executed," when the reality is that execution has nothing to do with how the...
Continue ReadingU.S. War Making: What’s in It for You?
You pay for all of this endless death and destruction, average American, but you get less than nothing out of it. In short, you are a sap for evil and designing intriguers. If you are reflexively “supporting the troops,” you...
Continue ReadingFeminism or Masculinism? Neither…
In light of the many and varied types of unfairness that both men and women endure today and have endured throughout history, I can't say that one gender has been treated more unfairly than the other. Both are and have...
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