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Responding to Acts of Evil: Proportionality and Necessity – The Reconstructionist
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A meta-contrarian look at gender and sj. December 21, 2016. January 14, 2017. By silver and ivory. Responding to Acts of Evil: Proportionality and Necessity. Warning for moral arguments, torture mention, death mention, murder mention, violence mention, and mention of Osama bin Laden and associated actions, suicide mention, bullying mention]. Recently the question arose as to how to achieve justice- how to prevent and respond to acts of evil. I thought for a while, and I seem to have come up with this.
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Archives – The Reconstructionist
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A meta-contrarian look at gender and sj. In Search of Truth. 8211; a beginning. 8211; binaries, Derrida, and a slightly incoherent response. 8211; Donald Trump’s election. Urging Restraint and Social Justice Norms. 8211; Donald Trump, sj party orthodoxy, and why privilege is often used in harmful ways. A Love Letter to Girlfags. 8211; a guide to questioning your gender and trans politics. 8211; what’s not to love about. More Awesome Things About Beowulf. 8211; seriously, what. Men's Rights Sydney. Girlfa...
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Fear – The Reconstructionist
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A meta-contrarian look at gender and sj. November 9, 2016. November 17, 2016. By silver and ivory. Trump has been elected president. This is a fact. But it doesn’t mean. That a significant portion of America hates Mexicans. It doesn’t mean that a significant portion of America hates women. And it certainly doesn’t mean that racism and xenophobia and sexism have triumphed. It means – and it already has meant. I am legitimately happy for you all. And I would like for you to be graceful in victory. The Foun...
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Scrupulosity, Objectification, and Trans Obsession, Part 1: In Defense of Chasers – The Reconstructionist
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A meta-contrarian look at gender and sj. November 17, 2016. January 5, 2017. By silver and ivory. Scrupulosity, Objectification, and Trans Obsession, Part 1: In Defense of Chasers. A followup to the girlfags post. Before I came out to myself as trans, I was absolutely obsessed with trans people. I spent all of my free time reading Julia Serano. And Not Another Aedan. And Quora’s Transgender topic and Jack Molay’s Crossdreamers. Site I followed trans accounts on Instagram. I read Ozy’s blog. Of course, I ...
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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. Below please find the COMMENTS POLICY and the REGISTER OF BANS. If any man shall exceed the bounds of moderation, we shall punish him severely. James A. Donald and Multiheaded for three days (3/22/2014 – 3/25/2014) for reasons. 8211; HF indefinitely (5/16/2014 –? James A. Donald for three weeks (5/16/2014 – 6/7/2014) for reasons. 8211; Piano for one month (6/2/2014 – 7/2/2014) for reasons. 8211; Alfanerd indefinitely for reasons. Tarrou for ...
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charity | Slate Star Codex
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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. The Price Of Glee In China. March 23, 2016. Epistemic status: Overly simplistic treatment of a horrifyingly complex topic; I can only hope I haven’t missed enough to completely embarrass myself] I. Noah Smith reviews recent economic research suggesting that globalization was a net harm to working class people … Continue reading →. January 10, 2016. September 23, 2015. September 22, 2015. Epistemic status/edit: After reading comments, no long...
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Resolving Utilitarianism – The Reconstructionist
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A meta-contrarian look at gender and sj. December 31, 2016. December 31, 2016. By silver and ivory. So I’ve said before that I was going to write up a post on utilitarianism. This is that post. Note that I haven’t done much formal reading on utilitarianism, and it could be that someone else has already made these observations. Mine, of course. The contractarian system looks quite good as long as we only consider good examples. For example, Omar’s welfare is satisfied by having everyone including him ...
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Recommendations | Daystar Eld
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Pokemon: The Origin of Species. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. The one that started it all. For those that haven’t read it, HPMOR is an alternate world story where Petunia married an Oxford Professor and Harry was raised with an understanding of science and rationality. I would humbly suggest beginning here. Golden Age Superman rationalfic where Lex Luthor is the protagonist reacting to the idea of an alien god descending on humanity to dispense uncontestable justice. Kind of ruined Bat...
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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. July 27, 2016. I There was a point in my post Monday that a few people commented on (and one person emailed me about a while ago for unrelated reasons) that I want to make explicit. In I Can Tolerate Anything Except The … Continue reading →. June 17, 2016. Things I will regret writing. Book Review: Albion’s Seed. April 27, 2016. Long post is long. The Ideology Is Not The Movement. April 4, 2016. I Why is there such a strong Sunni/Shia divide?
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rationality | Slate Star Codex
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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. February 4, 2016. Lots of people recommended Philip Tetlock’s Superforecasting as relevant to my interests. In retrospect, this should have been a warning sign; if I had been one of the titular superforecasters I might have predicted that it wouldn’t contain too much … Continue reading →. January 25, 2016. 2015 Predictions: Calibration Results. January 2, 2016. What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing? November 3, 2015. October 21, 2015.
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