A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Audio: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Google Play Spotify Topics: The challenge of extreme cases // Hitler’s Mein Kampf in particular // Joke: A German asks how many Poles it takes to change a lightbulb // Hard questions related to the Nazi history // Can […]
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[This lecture is part 2 of the Entrepreneurship and Values Series and was recorded at Rockford University and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.] Unleash Your Inner Company by John Chisholm Hello, I am John Chisholm and I am here at Rockford University in Rockford, Illinois at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship to talk about
Caption humor challenge: My suggestions: “We’re lucky that Al Gore invented garages!” “*Exactly* why we need more government subsidies for garage construction.” “Possible — but only before global warning made garages too hot.” More?
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My discussion with Glenn Beck ranged over capitalism and socialism, the ethics needed for a free society, Greek virtues, intolerance and indoctrination in education, Ayn Rand’s egoism and her view of charity, whether a meaningful life requires transcending failure, the differences between Antifa and Nazi Brownshirts, whether the National Socialist really were socialist, postmodernism, whether
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George Orwell, in contrast to those who want to distance National Socialism from their own preferred version of socialism: “National Socialism is a form of socialism, is emphatically revolutionary, does crush the property owner as surely as it crushes the worker.” [1] Also, and in fuller detail: “Internally, Germany [under the Nazis] has a good
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A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Audio: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Google Play Spotify Topics: Some sex-doll humor // The new materials, robotics, and A.I. // Focus on the ethics, not the politics // Two continua: psychological realism and physical realism // What do we really want from
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As part of my Neither right nor left mantra, another datum. Most people use “right” and “left” journalistically: to designate shifting bundles of social-political beliefs and attitudes. The bundles are usually not internally coherent. So more analytic thinkers try to bring order out of mush by identifying multiple dimensions of contrast: individual versus collective, liberty
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Both of these signs are repulsive. (Click to enlarge.) Similarities between the two movements: (a) People are to be kept separate based on color, and (b) admonishing signs are needed to remind and keep people in their place. Differences between the two movements: (c) In one case, the fear is that one color will be
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