Peaceniks Target Killer Drones
That is the title of a Wired article about peaceniks and the remotely controlled attack aircraft used by the US Air Force. For a moment I thought that a bunch of hard-core pacifists had gone out and bought Stinger missiles. Just because it’s ethically consistent for pacifists to blow up unmanned drones doesn’t make the [...]
Progress
Some insightful observations from my favorite Marxist:
2. The Left is not proposing any viable alternative to capitalism. Whereas vulgar libertarians have their Econ 101, the [G20] protestors have nothing, bar a few money cranks and moralistic bleating about greed.What’s unforgivable here is that there are alternatives. But no-one’s interested. Why don’t we hear about market [...]
Free Will
In a post at Meteuphoric, Katja Grace explains why the notion of (non-deterministic) free will is just incoherent nonsense. I wholly concur.
I’d like to further point out that her argument does not depend on a materialist theory of mind. Buying into dualism doesn’t help make free will the least bit more tenable. The question of [...]
