I have the impression that people think their own intuitions need not be questioned because they are reliable. But is that wise? I don’t think so.
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The Case for Legalizing Sex Work
Sex worker “Aella” has made hundreds of thousands of dollars, mostly by “camming,” showing her body to men online and talking intimately with them. Her customers are happy to pay for that. This offends people.
Decide What’s Most Important To You
Do you only care about some things because you’ve been manipulated into caring?
Future Americans
A horrendous TV news link appeared in today’s Facebook news feed, “Iowa school district promises to end seclusion rooms use.” I read the term, “seclusion” as “solitary confinement,” and I flash back to scenes from “Cool Hand Luke.”
Libertarianism is Too Rational
I’ve written elsewhere, in places too numerous now to recall, about the fact that many if not most libertarians make the erroneous – and largely false – assumption that the average person actually wants to be free. All the evidence demonstrates that they don’t. There’s another reason why libertarianism fails to gain mass appeal: It’s too rational.
Reject Both Identity and Egalitarian Politics
The push-back against identity politics by disillusioned leftists is welcome, but the striving to replace identity with economic equality as the guiding political principle? Not so much.
Pandemic “Learning Loss” Actually Reveals More About Schooling Than Learning
There are mounting concerns over profound learning loss due to prolonged school closures and remote learning. New data released last week by the US Department of Education reveal that fourth-grade reading and math scores dropped sharply over the past two years. Fingers are waving regarding who is to blame, but the alleged “learning loss” now being exposed is more reflective of the nature of forced schooling rather than how children actually learn.
Does Sparing the Rod Really Spoil the Child?
If the strop taught me anything, it was the false lesson that instant resort to violence “works.” I suspect I’m not dead, in prison, or an alcoholic in spite of, not because of, the strop.
People Have Responsibility For Actions
Is it my imagination, or do many people run from responsibility as fast as they can?
Why I Like Beatniks More Than Hippies
There were differences between these two ostensibly “antiestablishment” lifestyles, and not all of them merely temporal. The Beats projected a different vision than the hippies who followed after them, and it was one that, I contend, appealed much more to an individualistic sensibility.