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Q2600: Ethics and Global Climate Change: A Rebuttal
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Home of the Little-Known Blogger. Ethics and Global Climate Change: A Rebuttal. As I mentioned on Facebook, my race to get this to my professor in time for drill weekend led me to fudge some page numbers in the citations. I've never had the time since to adequately fix them, so I've simply removed the offending citations. The remainder of my paper is below:. Stephen Gardiner, “Ethics and Global Climate Change”. Jason C. Diederich. 3 “ The increase in temperature in the 20th century is likely to hav...
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Q2600: Why Argument from Authority is Invalid
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Home of the Little-Known Blogger. Why Argument from Authority is Invalid. On February 2nd, renowned physicist Michio Kaku (I have several of his books. Appeared on the CBS morning show. To discuss the relationship of the recent snowstorms. Dr Kaku's argument (basically) was that warmer air caused greater evaporation in the Gulf of Mexico, which increased the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere- thus leading to greater snowfalls. However, water has a very interesting property: it is an incredible.
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Q2600: "It's Just My Scientist Against Your Scientist"
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Home of the Little-Known Blogger. It's Just My Scientist Against Your Scientist". In a recent discussion on the topic of abortion, I linked to a webpage from Princeton. Illustrating that, scientifically speaking, life begins at conception. The response to this was, "Well, I can pull up scientists who say just the opposite, so you're really just playing 'It's My Scientist Against Your Scientist.". My response: Go ahead- I triple-dog dare you. No post has been forthcoming. Nonpartisan point: if youre using...
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Q2600: Thoughts on Burn a Koran Day and Libertarianism
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Home of the Little-Known Blogger. Thoughts on Burn a Koran Day and Libertarianism. To my personal favorite, "burning Korans will get American soldiers killed in Iraq! Leaving aside the incredible pettiness and selfishness of using the lives of people who have signed contracts to put themselves in harm's way to protect your freedom as some sort of moral leverage, and the fact that I won't be PARTICIPATING in the event, let us consider some points of libertarianism in relationship to the upcoming event.
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Q2600: My Paper in a Nutshell...
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Home of the Little-Known Blogger. My Paper in a Nutshell. Some time ago, I was unfortunate enough to read Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition,. A research paper from the University of California, Berkeley, in which a group of liberal professors congratulate themselves on how cool liberals are and how rotten conservatives, while demonstrating absolutely no. Understanding of the usage of the terms (Adolph Hitler, for instance, is listed as a conservative). Of course, this isn't just an ind...
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Q2600: The High Road
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Home of the Little-Known Blogger. So, the Libertarian Party has been making a stink on Facebook about what a terrible blow for personal liberty it is that California didn't legalize marijuana this time around. This is one of the several reasons that, although I describe myself as a libertarian, I will never associate myself with the Libertarian Party. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Countdown to the November Elections! Visitors to Q2600 since 14 February 2008. Get a free web page counter.
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Q2600: The Rationality of Atheism
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Home of the Little-Known Blogger. The Rationality of Atheism. Talk of bringing atheism into a religious discussion forum brought up the position that atheism "would be the voice of reason waiting to hear what you believe and why." Disregarding the fact that superiority complexes seldom provide the voice of reason, let us examine some points:. Only negative evidence would provide a rational framework for atheism, and negative evidence cannot exist. Since no evidence could be presented to our mathematical-...
