Green Energy
Onkar Ghate at Capitalism Magazine has a fascinating article on what is rotten at the core of the West - the wrong definition for morality.
Love Thy Enemy: The Twilight of Freedom of Speech
I particular liked his summary below, but the whole article is great.
- Women And Children Last: “ferry Catastrophe: Muslims Beat Women And Children To Save Themselves”
Islam turns morality on it's head. The strong go before the weak. The women and children last. Might is right. Power, greed and lust are exalted. Who is the "God" of such morality? “It was hell. I saw some scary scenes. There were men, Iraqis,...
- One In Four Will Be A Muslim, Gloats British Mp
Religion has contributed to education, politics and morality, reckons the Tory MP Paul Goodman. “It is completely impossible to imagine human life or social life without it.” Oh no it isn’t. He was talking about how one in four of the population...
- On The Verge Of World War Iii: The Rising Tide Of Anti-semitism
I expect the anti-Semitism to be ratcheted up in our world. I've been expecting it for a long time. Much of the left is mentally ill, and anti-Semitism is part of that illness. No one on the left has done anything to combat the illness, so it has...
- Fighting For Liberty Without Apologies
Rebecca West argues that we are deluded if we think we can win a war by treating a savage enemy as if they were civilized. But she thinks we are diminished because of it. John Lewis says otherwise: "Ms. West sees the central judgment that is needed...
- The Morality Or Lack Of, Around Nuking Iran Pre-emptively
Seymour Hersch's article is important not because it claims we are discussing plans to nuke Iran, we had better be discussing such ideas, but because it should spur among us all a discussion of the morality surrounding such a decision. What have they...
Green Energy
The Morality of Rational Self-interest.
Onkar Ghate at Capitalism Magazine has a fascinating article on what is rotten at the core of the West - the wrong definition for morality.
Love Thy Enemy: The Twilight of Freedom of Speech
I particular liked his summary below, but the whole article is great.
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In the right's version [of morality], selfless surrender to evil translates into a foreign policy of self-effacing service.
Our duty, Bush declares, is to bring the vote to Iraqis and Palestinians, but we dare not tell them what constitution to adopt, or ban the killers they want to vote for. We have no right to assert our principles, because they are rational and good. But the Iraqis and Palestinians have a right to enact their tribal and terrorist beliefs at our expense, because their beliefs are irrational and evil. In the present crisis, the State Department will not defend free speech, because this principle is rationally defensible; to unequivocally assert this value would be selfish. But the Department will suggest that we respectfully refrain from publishing cartoons that upset the mental lethargy of self-made slaves to authority; Muslims have a right to their mystical taboos, precisely because the beliefs are mystical.
Tonight, when you turn on the news and see hatred-seething hordes burning the West's flags and torching its embassies, remember that this is the enemy your morality commands you to love and serve--and remember the lonely Danes hiding in fear for their lives.
And then, in the ultimate act of self-assertiveness, pledge to renounce the morality of sacrifice and learn its opposite: the morality of rational self-interest.
Though the West's twilight has begun, the darkness of suicide has not yet engulfed us. We still have a chance.
- Women And Children Last: “ferry Catastrophe: Muslims Beat Women And Children To Save Themselves”
Islam turns morality on it's head. The strong go before the weak. The women and children last. Might is right. Power, greed and lust are exalted. Who is the "God" of such morality? “It was hell. I saw some scary scenes. There were men, Iraqis,...
- One In Four Will Be A Muslim, Gloats British Mp
Religion has contributed to education, politics and morality, reckons the Tory MP Paul Goodman. “It is completely impossible to imagine human life or social life without it.” Oh no it isn’t. He was talking about how one in four of the population...
- On The Verge Of World War Iii: The Rising Tide Of Anti-semitism
I expect the anti-Semitism to be ratcheted up in our world. I've been expecting it for a long time. Much of the left is mentally ill, and anti-Semitism is part of that illness. No one on the left has done anything to combat the illness, so it has...
- Fighting For Liberty Without Apologies
Rebecca West argues that we are deluded if we think we can win a war by treating a savage enemy as if they were civilized. But she thinks we are diminished because of it. John Lewis says otherwise: "Ms. West sees the central judgment that is needed...
- The Morality Or Lack Of, Around Nuking Iran Pre-emptively
Seymour Hersch's article is important not because it claims we are discussing plans to nuke Iran, we had better be discussing such ideas, but because it should spur among us all a discussion of the morality surrounding such a decision. What have they...