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Over at SoulPancake, a crowdsourcing site for asking questions about religion and philosophy, someone posed the question of who judges morality in the absence of a divine authority.
In short, no one decides. It can only be discovered. Morality is an imperative and is empirically based in our nature as human beings.
The question [...]
One of the things that gets lost or misunderstood when talking about economics is the subjective nature of its analysis. Economic explanations, at least from the Austrian economics school, instruct that valuations are relative to the subject who holds them. For this reason, some people dismiss subjectivist economics because they believe it cannot instruct what [...]
To be clear, I am not here to bury religion. Faith and religion are distinct yet complementary concepts. As a matter of fact, someone could attempt to justify a religious belief strictly on objective empirical (fact-based) evidence. I also recognize that most people accept their religious belief in some part on emperical evidence. Often, people [...]
For ages, people have tried to construct the most ideal form of government. By “ideal,” I mean that which fulfills its purpose. The ideal pencil functions as a pencil should, allowing a writer to transcribe ideas onto a medium. What idea, good or bad, a writer transcribes is irrelevant. The pencil qua pencil does its [...]
In some respects, I agree with both sides in the heated L. Neil Smith-Shire Society intellectual property dispute. There has been some childish name-calling from each camp, although Smith’s has been far more harsh.
The controversy stems from the creation of the heretofore obscure Shire Society, the several dozen signatories claiming their [...]
The Center for a Stateless Society published its rather extensive political quiz Wednesday.
It turned out that I am not as entirely anti-militaristic as I thought, only 71 percent. Economically, I’m a 72 percent leftist, which is evident in my affinity with worker self-management. I had a feeling that some of the [...]
Super activist John Bush, of Austin’s Texans for Accountable Government, posted a commentary on the prevailing notion that liberty could be achieved by seizing control of the Republican Party. I have less care for electoral politics than might Bush, but I think his critique is well founded and should be heeded by those [...]
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Do Consequences Matter?
Silly question, right? Of course, consequences matter. More precisely, how do consequences affect one’s ethical beliefs? We hear all the time how there is a dichotomy between how one should act and how one must act to satisfy his or her best interests.
After looking at the deontological (or rule-based) and the consequentialist basis for [...]