Abortion
Free eBook: Argue Like (or With) a Libertarian About Abortion
I’m giving both sides of the abortion debate, in their fiery fervor, a cold bath of reason.
Come swim under the ice and see this important issue in a new and clear light.
Paradise Problem of Evil
Whether There Is Freedom in Heaven?
The problem of evil is often tackled via a free will defense. But isn’t there free will in heaven also? If so, why aren’t we already there? If not, what is its value?
The notion of free will must be rightly understood if this puzzle is to be solved.
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Train Hard
This universe is not our true home. Why then are we here? If men live only one life as Christianity affirms, then perhaps this is a natural place to get one’s eternal life started.
If, however, as I think, there is something to the doctrines of metempsychosis and suchlike, then we must admit that the main answer is to improve in all of our faculties.
But in that case, this universe is somewhat of a simulation: a boot camp for both the soul and the body.
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Sandy’s Enviro-Socialism
Climate change, such as it is, for the newly elected Sandy is only a cloak for her real interest: communizing the United States.
The text of her “Green New Deal,” once understood, leaves no doubt of her real designs.
Historical Stages Socialist Computation
Socialism Is Intellectual Sin
Socialism is an unnatural attempt to change the entire world into an enforced universal egalitarian slavery.
It bears no relation to ancient tribal equality which was a legitimate and essential economic stage.
Socialism tries to realize envy, which can be primitive or more sophisticated; but it’s destructive in both guises.
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Re: Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?
The philosopher Todd May is right that human extinction would be a tragedy, though not for the reasons he gives.
Contra May, the destruction of the human race would be the worst possible thing this universe could experience.
Finally, animal suffering, which for May constitutes a reason to welcome our demise, (1) is largely irrelevant, (2) is justified, and (3) would not diminish, and might even increase, even if the human race came to an end.
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Components and Essence of Happiness
St. Thomas locates the essence of happiness in an activity, and the essence of perfect happiness in the activity of the intellect at contemplating God “seen in His essence.”
The enjoyment of happiness is for him a proper accident, i.e., a common though not essential property of it.
But does that neglect our “trinities within”? And wouldn’t it follow from this opinion that a man who was seeing God but did not enjoy it would still be happy?
What Is God?
Paradox of the Angelic Fall
Though the fallen angels have been driven from heaven, their nature remains uncorrupt. Now every creature in its pure state loves God who is lovable essentially. Hence, demons love God at least as their Creator.
Human nature, on the other hand, is wounded in general; and many particular humans are sinners and may not even believe that God exists. But human saints at least, too, love God.
Why then are demons and men locked in a merciless battle? Wasn’t it the same God whom we love who created both our kinds?
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Capitalism Eliminates the Proletarians
Being a “proletarian” constitutes a personality disorder.
Laissez-faire capitalism is the cure.
From the Vault Redux
NAP Requires a Theory of Property and Justice
The non-aggression principle cannot be a primary concept in libertarianism, because determining what constitutes aggression presupposes a theory of property and its just and unjust acquisition.
Stalin might argue that Solzhenitsyn is his slave, that he belongs in the Gulag by right, and that any attempt by him to escape is aggressive violence.
Thus, in this example, establishing self-ownership is prior to deducing the content of the NAP.