Archive for the ‘ethics’ Category
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
David Boaz of the Cato Institute points out that neither candidate for Life Coach of the United States (or is it Daddy, High Priest, or Santa Claus) has much respect for individualism. Rather the derive meaning from our own personal life goals and priorities, we can do so only with ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
I'm paraphrasing one of my favorite lines in Yaron Brook's recent commentary in Forbes about how politicians use tax exemptions to garner political favor and control our behavior. He does a fine job of connecting what we usually consider to be an economic issue with a moral issue. ...
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
As a long-time Sprint customer, I am eligible for "benefits" resulting from the Benney Lundberg settlement, which concerns allegations that Sprint was fraudulent, deceptive, etc. about their billing policies. Yet, given what I've read about class action lawsuits, for example, by Peter Huber and John Stossel, we are generally "overlawyered." ...
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
I just watched the Penn & Teller Bullshit! Episode on the Endangered Species Act. I couldn't help to think about the theory of Rational Irrationality, i.e., how it's economically "rational" to be epistemologically irrational, or how little incentive people have to be informed about the effectiveness and unintended consequences ...
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Saturday, January 14th, 2006
Yep, that's right. A woman called in to this NPR radio show and answered a question correctly by looking it up on Google. The host, Michael Feldman, handled it graciously, but I can imagine he was a bit miffed. This woman did not seem to have a problem with ...
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Friday, December 30th, 2005
The above link is to an NPR segment of letters in response to a story about Roy Kaylor, "a man who has mastered 'the claw' -- the arcade game where a mechanical claw picks up stuffed animals and other toys." Elizabeth Pownall of Eugene, Oregon wrote in to say that ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
Two cool articles this week:
Nestle chief rejects the need to `give back' to communities, via e-mail from Heather. it's about time. The CEO must have read Milton Friedman's article from 1970 or the new CSR Watch website.
Also, John Stossel did a report on modern "art" last week.
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Monday, December 16th, 2002
Been reading about circumcision lately. Wendy McElroy wrote a good article about it, and National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers ("N.O.C.I.R.C.", and no bias, of course!) has some good literature on it. Yesterday in a used bookstore I got a bit light headed reading a book about ...
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Friday, July 26th, 2002
To a friend of mine I wrote that I'm passionate and active about political issues because "I don't want to live in (more) tyranny, and as I said, I think this [or that] is one step closer."
She asks me:
What tyranny do you live in? What have you wanted to do ...
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