If sanctioned regimes are so monstrous, then virtually all of their subjects have a good reason to fear them. In technical terms, this plausibly amounts to a “well-founded fear of persecution” – the essential legal ingredient for meriting asylum.
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China Brings Out the Hypocrisy in Corporate Social Justice Warriors
Only one NBA player is principled enough to point out the NBA’s hypocrisy: Boston Celtic Enes Kanter Freedom. He criticizes players who don’t speak up because they fear losing Chinese business deals.
Obedience Isn’t The Ethical Choice
Obedience is not something to be encouraged or celebrated; it’s one of the most dangerous human traits there is. Obedient people have caused far more problems than rebels. It’s not even close.
Speculation II
As I hoped to have implied in my last post, I feel there are far too many instances of speculation in our culture. The mechanics of infantile learning feed into a vicious feedback loop.
Why Can’t Everything Be Free?
“Why can’t everything be free?” I’m always delighted whenever a child asks me, because I have an intellectually solid answer even a child can understand. Namely: If everyone had to produce for free, there would be virtually nothing to buy. If everything had a price of zero, consumers would strive to fill their shopping carts […]
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Intellectual Vandalism and The Steadfastness of Reason
The most influential “opinion-forming” political, corporate, media-entertainment and “educational” centers are currently testing the question to what extent it is possible to completely demean human reason by filling it with content not even lying, but absurd, and not so much systemically ideological as grotesquely self-contradicting.
Teacher and Mom of Four Launches Mask-Free Learning Center in Response to Parent Demand
In the fall of 2021, mask mandates were still in place in her local district schools, and the Montessori school that her younger children attended grew stricter with its mask policy, so Perez decided to homeschool all of her children and turn her learning pod into an established schooling alternative.
Circumcision: Pope Francis States the Obvious, but Omits Half of Humanity
Why is it considered unacceptable to genitally mutilate infant girls, but acceptable — or at least not important enough to vocally oppose — to genitally mutilate infant boys?
Speculations
So, tell me how it’s going to be, Please, when I grow up
Thanks for Less Than Nothing
If you’re tempted to quip, “Thanks for nothing!,” you underestimate how Kafkaesque this situation really is. This is not a “Thanks for nothing” situation. It is a “Thanks for less than nothing situation.” A situation where government “protection of your rights” makes you wish you didn’t have the rights in the first place.