While most genres of music and art from all time tend to surrender to market pressures and employ the baser urgers of the human condition from sex to revenge to other things like that to get popular, the country genre’s core demographic are conservative Christians and it does seem to represent the lives of mostContinue reading “Is Country Music Morally Nihilistic?”
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The Anti-Feminist Women and Warrior Feminism
Feminism is a unique movement in that it is among the only major rights’ movements where a large portion of their opponents are members of the very marginalized group they represent. Hardly will one find a Black person who didn’t support Civil Rights or an Indian who supported the British Raj but, a large, double-digitContinue reading “The Anti-Feminist Women and Warrior Feminism”
The Strength of the Subnorm in Rawlsian Ethics
Is it moral to eat buggers in public? Children are usually taught, in the normative, that it is wrong. Children are also taught that they have the right to do whatever they like as long as it does not infringe on the negative liberties of others. And it doesn’t really come into conflict with theContinue reading “The Strength of the Subnorm in Rawlsian Ethics”
On Missions to the Un and Semi Contacted Tribes
My first and greatest worry when missionaries try to evangelize natives is not the typical criticism of cultural genocide or destruction. As I have written before, that can be mitigated and I want it to be although the megachurch evangelicals who do missions to a place like India don’t usally try to preserve the localContinue reading “On Missions to the Un and Semi Contacted Tribes”
Olivia Benson, Angela Davis, Rose McGowan, and Humanity
The most criticized of the left-wing movements by sane people is the #metoo movement. Some of these were warranted and some were not and I don’t call the people sane if I agree with them. It is just that the anti-vaxx movement is likely bigger, now, than the anti-#metoo discoruse and the anti-vaxx people haveContinue reading “Olivia Benson, Angela Davis, Rose McGowan, and Humanity”
On the Quality of Oxford Union Debates
For intellectual stimulation, I try to wtach the deep and pretentious whenever I can. Oxford does not fail to disappoint. Their debates suck ass. Recently, I watched the debate about whether God exists which is stupid question. Which one? Which version? A few weeks ago, an angry atheist pointed out to me that I amContinue reading “On the Quality of Oxford Union Debates”
OnlyFans, Olivia Dunne, and the Dystopia of Contemporary Hottness
Recently, Olivia Dunne has made headlines after her fans got stalky and rabid. Now, the online discourse has surrounded the stupid debate between “boys will be boys” and she is selling her body online and she is a vulnerable woman and this shows how scary men can be. No girl, obviously, deserves to be rapedContinue reading “OnlyFans, Olivia Dunne, and the Dystopia of Contemporary Hottness”
Ballerini Ethics: The Ethics of Loyalty
I term this Ballerini Ethics after Kelsea Ballerini’s song “If You Go Down” in which she says she’ll lie to protect her friend from the consequences of murdering of her friend’s husband. Now, of course, the singer would claim this was an exageration but if that’s true, it doesn’t sound much better. If her friend,Continue reading “Ballerini Ethics: The Ethics of Loyalty”
Hegelian Paradigms in Relationships
Is Leo DiCaprio immoral in his dating relationships with of-age women of whom he is decades their senior? Instinctively, I have two responses. One is my libertarian response, which says that, while discomforting, our society is about right with regards to age of majority at eighteen, they are brain developed enough to ethically consent andContinue reading “Hegelian Paradigms in Relationships”
Do Toxic People Exist?
With a background in psychology and having spent much time in the extremely human realms that are politics and religion, I am possibly qualified to give a view on the question in the title. No. Toxic people don’t exist. People exist with toxic qualities. In fact, everyone has them. Perhaps, that’s stating the obvious butContinue reading “Do Toxic People Exist?”
The Autistic Resistance 