Author: Mr Nobody
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The job of government
The job of government is to codify and enforce the rules of fair play, not ensure equal or specific outcomes. So government needs to make sure that the rules are uniform (which produces freedom and opportunity), not make sure that the results are uniform (which virtually always involves injustice and tyranny, even when well-meant). Private…
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The end of medicine
You can’t have a well developed conception of pathology without a well developed concept of an ideal. When doctors at last lose the prejudice for any certain ideal of health, they will no longer be able to diagnose nor cure disease, and will be sent home.
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Playing the role
The great lesson to be learned from casting is that you won’t always get the role you wanted or expected or deserved, and you can waste your moment being resentful or disappointed about that. What you really can and should do is to make the most of the moment you’re given and play the part…
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Trump and conservatism
From a fiscal perspective, Trump probably did more damage to the conservative role in government than all the liberal presidents put together. He accomplished what no democratic president could ever do; he ran the fiscal conservatives out government. Far from it, the presence of an opposition president often galvanized conservative leaders. People like Paul Ryan…
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College for all?
The idea of college for all is tricky. For two reasons. First, a huge amount of money is already being wasted on college for people who take it for granted (especially those who aren’t paying for it) and don’t have any good reason to be there. They see it as an extension of high school,…
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Who has sexual advantage?
Men and women both have advantages and disadvantages in their respective approaches. It’s very easy to see the disadvantages of your approach when you’re dealing with the other, when you’re on the other side’s turf, their domains of special competence (whose very existence some people would no doubt deny today) and out of your element.…
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Suicide, covid, and women
In response to the claim that the reason for the general increase in suicides (in Japan) during covid was due to women being stuck at home with abusive men. I asked, do they have data in that, or is that speculation? To which I received a very frosty glare and the rejoinder that people who…
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Ravi and scandal
From a conversation about Ravi Zacharias and the revelations of his misdeeds with masseurs. One note I should make first is that it’s very easy to have the right ideas and quite another thing to live by them. As much as I like to talk about the need for courage to face the truth and…
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False confidence
True confidence isn’t found by believing in yourself. That’s just ignorance, aggression, bluster, and self-deceit. You don’t steady yourself by grasping yourself tighter and tighter. Real confidence comes from fixing your eye on something bigger than yourself, outside of yourself, and grabbing hold of that. If you’ve grabbed something big enough and solid enough, it…
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Who is the ideal modern feminist?
I heard a very curious argument from a transgender person today that is hard to respond to. He (or she, possibly, I’m going to assume he was intending to present as a she) was arguing that the whole point of feminism (as a movement) was to free the meaning of being a woman from the…
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