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During the Korean War, captured American soldiers found themselves in POW camps run by Chinese Communists. The Chinese treated captives quite differently than their allies, the North Koreans, who favored
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The lockdowns will never end. Each deadly pandemic will be succeeded by a new one, until under-exposure to the environment raises our susceptibility to formerly benign viruses, and colds become
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A common refrain in our modern religious landscape is that enlightenment is a mental state that is agnostic w/r/t the revealed religion of the practitioner. To make this point, they
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philosophy must give up her attempt at finding the veritates aeternae. The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty - man who is supremely afraid of
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The idea of convergent instrumental goals is a concept popularized by Omohundro and Bostrom. It means that, regardless of one’s ultimate goals, certain sub-goals are universal, are “instrumental” to the
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The Nietzschean idea that suffuses all of modernity is the idea that “values” are idiosyncratic to each individual and group. When people refer to their “values”, “what we value” etc,
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A common misconception is that morality is "caring for your fellow man," but if in our time together I could persuade you of only one thing, my friends, I would
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One pathology of libertarian thinkers is their tendency to equate power with its abuses. We are coming out of a century of spectacularly bad and abusive government. The existence of
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One liners, inspired by that @yungdeleuze thread The idea that ugly people have inner beauty is largely a myth Spiritual beauty and physical beauty are related and mutually reinforcing Sjws
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