Simon Paynton

Evidence suggests Russia has been deliberately targeting journalists in Ukraine — a war crime

[Established in 1938, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard administers the oldest fellowship program for journalists in the world. More than 1,300 journalists of accomplishment from 88 countries have received…[Read more]

@Enco – Yes, I think I did post it previously. I re-read the book every few years. Same with Fear  and Loathing in LV, just to make sure I am living correctly 🙂

As for what two or more people do together as consenting adults is of no interest or concern to me unless I am one of them. Here in Ireland the penalty for bigamy is two wives!

Just rereading a book that mentions the Puritans. It is over 100 years old now.  From ‘The Necessity of Atheism’ by Dr. D.M. Brooks;

When the Puritan Fathers landed in this country, they began an existence that has revealed to the world for all time the value of a “burning religious zeal.” In a sense they showed this zeal in regard to the…[Read more]

The term “Islamophobia” was first used in print in 1991 and was defined as “unfounded hostility towards Islam, and therefore fear or dislike of all or most Muslims.” It is admitted in the article that the term “Islamophobia” is not an ideal descriptor. However, that statement is a prime example of a non sequitur fallacy. It does not follow that…[Read more]

my first thought was that it was hilarious this was posted on the New York Post.

Same here. I had to recheck it. Especially when you look at most of the sidebar stories. Maybe they are being sabotaged from the inside 🙂

Thanks, Reg 🙂

Have a great week everyone!

Laughs, you added that the owners flatulence acted in a Pavlovian way by training the horse to over-react and rear up at all similar sounds.

Our school lesson on Pavlov was interrupted when the dinner bell rang and we all went to the canteen.

Laughs, you added that the owners flatulence acted in a Pavlovian way by training the horse to over-react and rear up at all similar sounds.

I am sure an argument for proximate cause could be made for the supplier of whatever culinary delights the owner enjoyed despite knowing they caused him flatulence.

Or the car driver for not maintaining his car adequately, enabling it to backfire. The horse of course had input through it’s reaction which unseated the rider. The ambulance driver chose the hospital to which the rider was going. To a degree, he’s a link in the sequence chain. The hospital allowed the rider-patient to become infected – per…[Read more]

Proximate cause is the fulcrum of the insurance industry. One of the sample narratives which challenged the learner to pinpoint proximate cause, went something like this:-

A car backfires

A horse shies and tosses its rider

The rider breaks a leg in the fall

The ambulance takes the rider to hospital.

The rider contracts a virus from another…[Read more]

No you cannot know what consequences are going to be. You can assume and/or predict but you cannot know. That is an essential motivation for taking deontological ethics seriously. You can very likely know the consequences of dropping a large object from a high distance. You cannot know the consequences of lying. There are simply too many unknowns.…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

Speaking of Vivek Ramaswamy, his campaign died in one interview by Mehdi Hasan.

Do you believe that enough people trying to listen to that mess of overlapping dialog could actually understand most of the questions and answers? Vivek does that all the time, and I wonder if fast talking while looking more confident than a used car…[Read more]

It means human agents shot children and not one gun law ever stopped a criminal from obtaining a firearm.

It is easy for anyone, not just criminals, to get a firearm. Even dumb criminals have no problem obtaining one. Often child criminals under 7 years of age have no problem finding one before killing a parent or sibling. About 34% of those…[Read more]

I think that all moral systems deal with actions and consequences. Consequentialism (a highly problematic approach in my opinion) obviously deals with consequences more. I would not characterise deontological systems as focussing on one more than the other. It is a fairly unique system, quite different to the others in many aspects and it includes…[Read more]