Tag: Means

Historically, moral philosophers have tended to fall into one of three camps. There are the consequentialists, who define good and evil actions in terms of the benefits and harms they bring about. There are the deontologists, who call an action good or evil depending on whether it conforms to a part...

Historically, moral philosophers have tended to fall into one of three camps. There are the consequentialists, who define good and evil actions in terms of the benefits and harms they bring about. There are the deontologists, who call an action good or evil depending on whether it conforms to a part...

I love freedom, and I believe you also love, don’t you? But when I talk about freedom, I mean responsibility. Now, you might be a little surprised. It’s okay; I’ll try to explain it in my way. We are often told that freedom means being carefree and that freedom means having no resp...

Next week we are having some work done on our kitchen. It is very much needed and will bring huge benefits. But it means that I am currently having to relocate the entire contents of the kitchen cupboards to elsewhere in the house. It is chaos, and I am finding it exhausting. I know that building...

Means was very American in his deep love of freedom. He was a leader with energy, charisma and brains — but he was impulsive, with little commitment to the scut work of organizing. He always chafed at restrictions on his freedom. At age 29, drifting in and out of trouble, in Minneapolis, Mi...

I’m now two months sober. Once again, I’ve learned my expectations were all wrong. I expected to be able to ignore cravings by the time two months arrived. I figured they would still happen, but I assumed I’d be able to push them aside like a smelly, unappealing plate of f...

I hear all of the time from guys who want to challenge the fact that patriarchy only arose about 6–9 thousand years ago and that prior to this time, humans overwhelmingly lived in largely egalitarian communities — as foragers, but also in many proto-agricultural communities such as ...