Query:
Some people blur the distinction between mental illness and moral wrong by ascribing certain behaviors to mental illness when they are in fact simply evil acts. Have you ever addressed this interesting topic?
Today’s post concerns the nature of logic. It will bore some readers, interest others, and fascinate a few. Read on to find out which kind you are.
Aristotle famously distinguished between theoretical syllogisms (which describe how we consider what is the case) and practical syllogisms (which describe how we decide what to do).
In some states and countries, legislators have moved to criminalize misgendering – that is, calling people by their biological sexes instead of the sexes they say they are.
What a blow for equality! But why stop there? Why do we stigmatize misgendering, and yet turn a blind eye to misspeciesing?
I confess to having mixed feelings about the recent case in which the Court ruled that Oklahoma cannot deny charter status to a school just because it is Catholic.
Most people know the importance of carefully reading contracts before signing them and labels before using the product. All sorts of poisons can be hidden in the fine print. What most people don’t know is that fine print is also a means of advancing the international culture war. (And yes, it is international. Did you think globalization was only about markets?)
By “natural ingredients,” people mean ingredients derived from nature. But every ingredient is derived from nature. Snake venom is derived from nature. Arsenic is derived from nature.
Men and women bear equal dignity as human beings. But the men-in-women's-sports scandal is an elegant demonstration that the claim that men and women are just the same in doesn’t liberate women, but subjugates and abolishes them.
