Nobody asked but … A torture scenario such as that in a movie is an exercise in begging the question. It presumes that there is a circumstance under which torture can be justified. Torture may be explained, but it is never justified. Any situation that might be considered as justification of torture is already bankrupt…
Category: Nobody Asked, But
What Did I Value As A Child?
Nobody asked but … I was fascinated by Skyler’s article this week about his wife’s childhood and their discussion of what values might abide in a child’s view of life. This lead me to revisit the belongings and likely belongings of my ancestors, and then to reflect on my own childhood. In 19th century rural…
What Were You Expecting?
Nobody asked but … World = dangerous place, humans = dangerous animals. Would you by choice turn a government loose in this situation and expect the situation not to worsen at an exponential rate? Kilgore
Flying in the Jailhouse Skies
Nobody asked but … When you go through that TSA checkpoint, you are not entering the friendly skies. You are incarcerated. You are detained. Your property is confiscated. The only way you can get out in an unexpected fashion is to die, or to crash, or to be hijacked. Whether you fly 100 miles or…
Re: Nature of Evil II
Nobody asked but … Across every linden tree I have ever seen, there are no two leaves alike when the fall color begins to blush. Each leaf is a product of where and when it came into the world, it’s birth, and a product of where and how it spent the growing season, it’s world.…
Hindsight Or Foresight — Always 20/20
Nobody asked but … I don’t have much patience with either hindsighted speculation or crystal ball gazing. Very few of these time travel accounts bear the mark of Occam’s Razor. I don’t concur that Pearl Harbor was a conspiracy, but the facts are eloquent without overcooking the detail. And there is nothing really surprising there…
Humpty Dumpty II
Nobody asked but … You may be assured that somewhere behind Humpty Dumpty, among the King’s men, there is an Iago. He has put Humpty Dumpty on that wall. In Kentucky, we talk about a turtle on a fence post — we don’t know how he got there, but we know he did not do…
When Does Humpty Dumpty Begin to Fall?
Nobody asked but … When Humpty Dumpty gets up on the wall. We often theorize that communism falls when it is overwhelmed by its own weight, like a beached whale. See the Berlin Wall. But any thoroughgoing analysis will show that specific instances of communism including socialism begin to fall with the advent of an…
If Libertarianism Is Such a Great System
Nobody asked but … On a podcast, We Are Libertarians, I listened to yesterday, the interviewer asked Tom Woods, “If libertarianism is such a great system, why haven’t any countries adopted it?” Tom did an excellent job of answering, because it was just a softball slow pitch for him. What I was astounded by was…
Life Is Hard
Nobody asked but … Once on Seinfeld, Elaine complained about having to shake a bottle of juice. This is supposed to be light satire, but really life IS hard. It’s full of choices, but way too many of them are prefabricated choices. Why did Elaine’s bottle appear to command a choice with no alternative? What…