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Part two in my three-part article series on silencing the voice of reason. "Having principles carries a lot of weight. Your thoughts and emotions dictate your behavior. So if you have a certain mindset, you will act in a certain way. When you live in a highly delusional and unprincipled society as ours, having principles and applying them consistently requires enormous inner strength and courage. Your life is different than that of most people; your priorities are different than most people’s; your relationships are different; you see things that other people don’t see. And when you describe those things, people who are highly invested in staying unprincipled and irrational—that is the majority of our population—get upset and unruly." Read more here: http://blog.selfarcheology.com/2016/02/silencing-voice-of-reason-part-2-values.html- 3 replies
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I still have mixed feelings about this. I know there has been a lot of controversy on the boards around the call in show "An Atheist Apologizes to Christians" so perhaps you will find this video thought-provoking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU5-oh-ZbZg -
I'd like Stef to consider doing an interview with commentator, Jan Helfeld. If you haven't seen Jan's youtube videos, you're missing out on some of the best "gotcha" moments through Jan's "Socratic interviewing" with regular joes, political "celebrities", and big-wig pundits in the political media scene today. His style is seemingly nonthreatening and bumbling and imprecise, until he finally articulates the interviewees own obvious cognitive dissonance trap that they themselves have woven themselves into, often times reducing them to embarrassed little shreds of humiliated (and angry) little sophists. Here's a classic with a very angry Nancy threatening to call security on Jan's ass. Here is Jan's website: http://janhelfeld.com/ EDIT: After posting and before moderation, I remembered watching the minarchist/anarchist debate years ago. I still think he has some interesting posts, even if he's not so eloquent and he's worth having on to introduce his work to new listeners, in my view.
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"The right to not be robbed does not preclude the obligation to give, it simply restricts others from enforcing this obligation through theft." What do people think of this argument?
