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Registration Date: Jul 06, 2011

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Topics Submitted: 32 topics

Total Posts: 1011 (3 per day)

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Shouts: 27

Total Time Online: 28 days, 3 hours and 9 minutes

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• Tribalism
  
• Decontextualized ethics
  
• Metaphysics determines ethics and politics
  
• Action: an interrogation
  
• What is human nature?
  

Most recent posts:

• I'm currently reading Morris Berman's Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline.
• At the Institute for Advanced Study website, there are some nice video lectures, including one on the "critique of humanitarian reason," and another o...
• The answer to that question depends on which jurisdiction's laws we're talking about. But as we're addressing a normative question h...
• This is a complicated matter so my thoughts aren't fully formed yet. But you're right, I'd say that the man has some stake in the ma...
• There is a clear and obvious similarity between slapping a stranger in the face and having a man control what happens to a woman's body. In ...

Most recent shouts:

• Accidental Philosopher [03/14/12 - 6:39 PM]: Besides being arbitrary and ineffective, drug laws also operate in a seemingly discriminatory way in the US. Black people are incarcerated in the US four times more than white people, often for drug-related crimes.
• Accidental Philosopher [03/14/12 - 6:06 PM]: Actually, now that I think about it a bit more, it does seem absurd for states to draw boundaries around legal and illegal drugs the way they do. If we can wreck our health with junk food, cigarettes, and alcohol, why can't we take whatever drugs we want?
• Accidental Philosopher [03/14/12 - 5:56 PM]: Desoxyn and other methamphetamines are indeed approved for use, but it's a stretch to say that they're "legalized" in the sense that we're saying that marijuana should be. To get methamphetamines in the US, one has to see a psychiatrist or doctor, and these substances are highly regulated. Are you saying that these methamphetamines should be freely available, as opposed to heavily regulated, Sapienta?
• Accidental Philosopher [03/14/12 - 5:03 PM]: Sapienta: The problem is that all drugs should not be legalized. Some drugs are so inherently dangerous (such as PCP and meth) that they should not be legalized. But 'soft,' low impact drugs such as marijuana should be.
• Accidental Philosopher [03/14/12 - 2:25 PM]: No, it's not a mistake, as these lawmakers and their constituents are acting quite deliberately. I attribute the problems to the influence of right-wing Christianity and Randianism (as in Ayn Rand) on American politics.

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