This disturbing video is worth watching, because I think it encapsulates much of the consequentalist side of American gun control debate: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUAL6ie1ufc] Gun control proponents think: More and better gun…
UPDATE 1: It’s probably worth reading this article by Feinberg, which explains why self-interest ≠ whatever you happen to care about. See also the “Further Update” below before making a…
Sometimes you write a book to tell people what you think. But sometimes you write a book to find out what you think. Several years ago, a chance encounter with…
Back in December of 2011, I posted “Licensing Parents,” defending a view Hugh LaFollette had introduced into philosophical literature in 1980: that the state should license parents (LaFollette further defended…
I recently wrote the following: Rand’s [moral] theory does forbid human sacrifice, but only contingently. Ethical egoists are committed to the view that if raping, dismembering, and murdering some other…
In my recent post responding to Matt Yglesias on the gold standard, at least one commenter was surprised to find a defense of “goldbuggery” here at BHL. I’m guessing this…