Edmund Burke noted that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing (John Stuart Mill and Albert Einstein have said similar things), and if we […]
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Tag: freedom
Freedom is inevitable
Violence and coercion are signs of weakness, needed only by those who know that their arguments are not good enough to speak for themselves. Whether it applies to a government […]
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Charlie Hebdo
After the birth of my daughter I was hoping to return to writing with a more upbeat message, but that is obviously very difficult at the moment. So if the […]
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Don’t fear freedom: we are stronger than Big Business
A news report from earlier this month had all the hallmarks of becoming a major scandal when it had been shown that more than one third of all food products […]
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Beyond The System
Every Star has its own Nature, which is ‘Right’ for it. We are not to be missionaries, with ideal standards of dress and morals, and such hard-ideas. We are to […]
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The statue of Satan in Oklahoma
A couple of months ago many Christians were up in arms when the Satanic Temple announced plans to adopt a stretch of highway in New York. Now, they are working on […]
Read moreThis is the end
Russell Brand’s interview on Newsnight has had almost 6.5 million views on Youtube already, a clear sign that his call to revolution is resonating strongly with many, many people and […]
Read moreHysteria – or: Evolving beyond morality
Morality makes stupid.– Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful – but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to […]
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The search for morals in logic
After my last blog, God is not the issue, a commenter asked the question: can we derive morality from knowledge? An interesting point, and if I may interpret “knowledge” as […]
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