Pages

▼
Sunday, 20 March 2016

On being law-abiding, and the coerciveness of the law

›
     "Hey, I have no intention of ever murdering someone, but why do we have to have a law  telling us not to, and threatening us with...
Friday, 4 March 2016

On Disagreeing with Lifestyles

›
    I have seen the following quote, attributed to Rick Warren, shared at least a half dozen times, and feel it needs a reply.      ...
Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Constitutional Liberty and Marijuana

›
     I have recently been pondering the obstacles in the path to legalization of marijuana, and in particular the fact that Canada and the U...
Tuesday, 16 February 2016

More Pseudolegal Nonsense that drives me insane

›
     I've received this image in my Facebook feed a few times now, so it's passed my unofficial threshhold for debunking it on my bl...
11 comments:
Saturday, 13 February 2016

Tactics and Tactfulness: Some Thoughts about Tone Policing

›
     Okay, I take it back.      A couple of years ago, I wrote in this post that the argument-from-anger fallacy doesn’t seem to be us...
2 comments:
Thursday, 11 February 2016

Seeing Ought from Is

›
     The other day I found myself in an argument with a religious person who claimed that atheists cannot support any concept of morality, b...
Friday, 22 January 2016

The Terrorist's Paradox

›
     A while ago, I wrote a bit about the security risks of Canada taking in Syrian refugees, in which I argued that the risk that some ref...