As Kant taught, he who wills the ends wills the means, inescapably. To satisfy your hatred of disagreeable aliens, you are asking for the government to turn the USA into a police state on steroids.
Tag: bigotry
Celebrity Presidents, Voluntary Governance, & Benign Bigotry (28m) – Editor’s Break 047
Editor’s Break 047 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson running for President of the United States, the importance of governance in a voluntary society, what “duly elected” means and non-voters being credited for a vote of non-confidence, dealing with anger, especially as it concerns raising children, and why attacking bigotry should take a back seat to attacking prickish behavior and violence.
Racism and Sexism Don’t Offend Me
I believe the fear people have with bigotry is demonstrated when you imagine a bigoted dictator. The guy has vast amounts of power, and he will use it to oppress a certain type of people. Seems like a reasonable concern. The problem with this outlook is that it ignores the much greater issue.
Economics, Bigotry, and Sexuality
It might seem distasteful, but we predominantly hurt women by punishing sexual harassment. Our society tolerates this because women generally dislike women who use their sexuality to get benefits when it isn’t themselves.
How Public Shaming Makes Real Change Harder
As long as we jump straight to public shaming and enemy-labelling, most people won’t have the internal fortitude to take the necessary steps to change. Public shaming should be a last resort when all hope of change is lost.
Will the Real Populism Please Stand Up?
Populism is quite easy to define. It is the separation of people into two warring classes. Let’s call them “the righteous masses” and “the power elites.” The populist, of course, sides with the righteous masses. It’s as simple as that. But the devil is in the details of defining those two classes.
Putting Grit in The Clockworks
Scott Adams almost gets it, but just misses the mark right where you’d expect. Right where “pragmatism” excuses violating people.
Las Vegas Concert “Security”
Sometimes there’s just nothing you can really do when some evil loser decides to kill people. But that’s no excuse to keep doing the wrong things; things that never help and sometimes hurt.
The Danger of Tribalism on a Large Scale
Seeing more latinos in my area, or more Africans, Arabs, Indians, Asians, Eastern Europeans, et cetera doesn’t bother me at all. I see them as my fellow human beings. However, I do think it would be incredibly easy for me to view them as the outgroup and be bothered by their presence. I think that’s due to my evolution as a member of a tribalistic species.
The Liberal Spirit and Its Opposite, Alt-Rightism
Maybe a few self-described libertarians cling to the idea that property is essentially about exclusion, but they are fated to hit a wall: liberalism is a spirit as well as a set of ideas, and it cannot be turned against itself. It fosters human solidarity, not separation. Libertarianism, like its precursor, is an answer to the question: under what conditions do reasoning social animals best flourish? In answering that question the way it has, liberalism offers no home to sowers of division.