- All too often, people talk about market competition as if it were opposed to cooperation — as if capitalists were only a step away from resorting to napalm and land mines. The Economist’s Free Exchange blog douses that burning pile of stupid with some cool, clear analytic philosophy:
The competition at the heart of capitalism is a competition to cooperate on ever better terms — a competition to offer consumers more for less.
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Via Cosmic Variance, I’ve learned today that Alan Alda is not only a great actor, but it a huge fan and supporter of science! I always suspected that he and Professor Saeta were long-lost siblings; now there can be no doubt.
- Libertarian bloggers everywhere have been denouncing racism and the recently revealed Ron Paul newsletters. One of the best pieces comes from Will Wilkinson, who explains why racism is not merely distasteful, but fundamentally opposed to libertarian ideals.
- The Temple Whore on prayer:
The truth is that Christians know better than to pray for a REAL miracle [e.g. healing amputees], because “God’s answer would be ‘no’”. Which is to say, the fact that god is either incompetent or imaginary would become quite obvious.
This entry was posted 2008-Jan-17 and is filed under Misc, Politics, Religion.
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