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On “Queer Theory”
The whole argument of queer theory basically boils down to, if we can eradicate the idea of the “good” or “healthy” or “normal” as a distinctive category, then none of us will have to suffer under the burden of being bad or unhealthy or abnormal. And that will free us from the psychological burden of…
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Reflecting on moral alarmism
I never had much sympathy for the alarm-raisers of the 80s and 90s, who claimed that the advertised evolution in attitudes around sexual behaviors represented an attempt to deliberately educate children into sexual deviancy (as it was then construed), and that various efforts to normatize a wide variety of sexual behaviors would result in a…
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Are emergent systems moral?
What is the moral status of adaptive, evolved systems? It’s not easy to say. They’re emergent, unplanned. Morality is about choice, alternatives, consequences, and adherence to guiding principles. But evolved systems just are. You can’t ask what the morality is of predation, of the fact that an enormous number of animals survive by devouring other…
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The dangers of group identification
There is an infinite well of anger go be drawn from. There is so much to be angry about. Not just in one situation, but for everyone, about so many things. The whole world, other people, ourselves, history, chance, life. Anger can be useful. And it can destroy us. We’re all always holding our anger…
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Stephen Fry and empiricism
https://youtu.be/fFFSKedy9f4 Commentary As much as Stephen advocates for empiricism, I think Jordan’s advantage in this discussion, despite appearances, is that he’s more grounded in ordinary empirical reality. As smart as he is, as successful as he is, Jordan hasn’t lived as one of the elite, the powerful, or the great of Canadian society. He grew…
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Moral honesty
Perhaps one of my more unique qaulities is that I actually know what I’m capable of. And I mean that in the worst way. I don’t lie to myself. I don’t have pleasant illusions. Most people lie to themselves about themselves all the time. It makes it easier to lie to other people. I believe…
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Embracing sex differences
Why there are two sexes and why the two sexes seek partnership is intimately tied up with their innate differences. Those differences are the basis for the partnership. If they didn’t exist you wouldn’t need it. If men and women actually were the same we wouldn’t need each other, and we wouldn’t need to…
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Kendi tries to define racism
I feel like this is the definitive statement of Kendi’s philosophy. Childish, self-referential, simplistic, reductive, belligerent, prejudiced, akd contradictory. His thought is more of an attitude, than a thesis. And this explanation of it captures it perfectly. An intelligent person would realize, at this point, that they’re talking to a child, or…
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You will not forget
I couldn’t catch the tails of all the love songs that drift through the summer air. I couldn’t fit them in a jar or distill them and give them to you. I couldn’t find that catch, that thrill, that slow throb, and make it real between you and me. I couldn’t fit all those stories…
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What does diversity entail?
We are told that you can’t have a racially divergent outcome, because that doesn’t allow for human diversity. I say, you cannot have a racially loaded process, because that does not allow for human diversity. For it is the right of people, and in fact all races, to be different. To be what they are.…
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