Reading Time: 12 minutes It’s my favourite philosophical thought experiment. There is a reason that I find the Sorites Paradox compelling, insightful and very important: it is everywhere and has ramifications right across the board. I’ll get onto it later. In my opinion, it goes hand in hand with conceptual nominalism – the belief that universals and abstract ideas […]
Sorites Paradox
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Responding to Wilcox #5: When Is a Human a Human Being?
Reading Time: 9 minutes This is the fifth piece in series debating Clinton Wilcox at the Life Training Institute (a pro-life organisation) with the following chronology: JP: Abortion: The Human/Human Being Distinction CW: About the Alleged Human/Human Being Distinction CW: About the Alleged Human/Human Being Distinction, Part 2 JP: Pro-Life Debate: Answering Criticisms on the Human/Human Being Distinction JP: Responding to Wilcox #2: “An […]
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Responding to Wilcox #3: Human, Humans, Human Beings, the Sorites Paradox & Identity
Reading Time: 5 minutes Today, again, I am continuing my rebuttals of Clinton Wilcox over at Life Training Institute, a pro-life organisation, after he tackled a post I wrote concerning human/human being distinction. My original piece was here, his two pieces here and here, and so far my two rejoinders here and here. This is my third in that […]
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Responding to Wilcox #2: “An Embryo Is an Innocent Human Being”
Reading Time: 8 minutes To continue the rejoinder to Clinton Wilcox over at the Life Training Institute, who took issue with one of my posts looking at the pro-life/pro-choice debate concerning abortion. I responded to the initial part of his first piece here. Today, I will look at his comments with regard to points 1-5 from my original post […]
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Abortion: The Human/Human Being Distinction
Reading Time: 13 minutes Every abortion kills an innocent human being…. Biology shows that a “ZEF” (Zygote, Embryo, Fetus – the three distinct prenatal developmental stages) is, in fact, a distinct, unique and individual human being…. The issue at hand is when we are considered human beings. That question can be answered by biology… -Mark Bradshaw The question remains, though, […]
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On Gun Control and the Second Amendment
Reading Time: 4 minutes The way I like to spend my downtime relaxing is to have endless debates on Facebook. In this case, I was debating gun control and regulation last night. I’m going to post some of my thoughts on this to see what you think. I am not going to concern myself with the pragmatic implications of […]
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“Morally Benign” Children and Human Sacrifice
Reading Time: 4 minutes Well, extra points for trying to shoehorn in weird blog titles, I guess. So, yesterday I talked about how children are often more “idealistic” and “morally benign”. I will admit that the use of the term “morally benign” was at best nuanced and unexplained, and at worst rushed. The question is, can children even be properly moral? This […]
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Races Do Not “Exist” Even Though They Might “Exist”.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Yup, you guessed it, we’re gonna return to the Sorites Paradox. Sorry to bore you. This comment came up on the older post “IQ: Using Race Divisively” and I thought I would go over some points I have previously made: You are clearly not very bright because you are so foolish as to believe that […]
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On Free Market Economics: Free Market Success Stories
Reading Time: 32 minutes Buckle up, this is another sizeable piece… (my series conclusion is below too, so don’t miss that). In this series looking skeptically at libertarian claims of free market capitalism being the holy grail of all of reality, I have come to the section where I cast a skeptical eye over some of the more common […]
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On Free Market Economics: No True Capitalism
Reading Time: 13 minutes Here is my second post in my series on free market skepticism (here is my first). I will start you off with this comment: However let’s move onto your left-wing economic degenerate lies where you say You then hit out with this garbage in response to me stating that free markets have never failed; “That’s because you […]