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"Rational philosophy is on the march. It will f--- up all of your sh-- and leave you without any teeth."
Building an Ethics on the Foundation of Respect and Accountability
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Welcome to Back to the Drawing Board! Until the summer of 2009, this blog was maintained by Danny Shahar, who subsequently went off to begin graduate school at the University of Arizona. Feel free to look around, keeping in mind that by the time you read this Danny will likely think that everything on this site is terribly unsophisticated and crude.
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- Economics (41)
- Climate Change (40)
- Ethical Theory (39)
- Property Rights (34)
- Liberty (31)
- The Molyneux Project (31)
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- Equality (25)
- Intrinsic Value (25)
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- The Non-Identity Problem (13)
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- Climate Change Skepticism (10)
- The Morality Debate (9)
- Emergent Problems (8)
- Procedural Justice (8)
- Environmental Values (7)
- Compensation (6)
- Discounting (4)
- Paternalism (4)
- Pollution (4)
- Gay Marriage (3)
- Taijitu (3)
- Abortion (2)
Followers
Read Things I've Written Elsewhere!
- In Praise of Educational Pluralism (Reprinted in The Freeman 1/20/09)
- In Praise of Educational Pluralism (9/15/08)
- The Seen and Unseen of Drinking-Age Laws (8/21/08)
- Could We Ever Justify Restraining Someone From Doing Drugs? (Part I) (1/2/08)
- Paternalists Just Don't Understand (11/20/07)
- Not High; Still Mighty (11/15/07)
- Putting a Price on Injustice (9/17/07)
- The Bjorn Ultimatum (9/4/07)
- The Skeptic's Wager (8/9/07)
- Who Dares Question the Global Warmocaust? (8/6/07)
- On the Objectivity of Self Ownership (8/1/07)
4 comments:
The government has prevented the emergence of a culture of "underage" drinking of alcohol which would have taught the proper techniques and precautions and counsels attendant to drinking, just as it has prevented the emergence of a decent drug culture.
Agreed completely. If I didn't convey that well enough in my article, it's not because I didn't mean to; on my list of negative consequences, I included "...we never had to worry about what adults would think of us, since they were never around when it happened, and so never learned to be "presentably drunk"..." I suppose I could have been more clear about that, but alas, hindsight is always 20/20!
Thanks for checking out the article!
You did a very good job with the article, Danny.
Thanks! I see your other comments, and don't have time to respond right now, but soon!
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