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The Responsibility of Speech,or Defying the Need for Freedom and Dignity (opens the original)
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The Mythology of Human Intelligence Chapter 7The Responsibility of SpeechAbsolute free speech and responsible speech are fundamentally different concepts regarding legal boundaries, personal ethics, and societal impact.Absolute Free Speech is the theoretical idea that any person can say anything, anywhere, at any time, without any legal or government interference or punishment. But that is not a legal reality and does not exist in the United States or any other democratic societies.While the
From Praising the Antelope to Packaged Beef (opens the original)
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The Mythology of Human Intelligence chapter 6The idea is that humanity is intelligent because he has progressed from homeless hunter-gatherers to supersonic travellers. From a species that needed to develop language to an internet that can explain what his language is to him.After all—progress is presented as a linear graph that day by day illustrates Our Conquest of the globe and soon the Galaxy.Here is where I depart from Hegel and the architects of his misunderstanding don’t eve
On the Great Probability that Lives Don’t Matter (opens the original)
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The Mythology of Human Intelligence Chapter 5On the Great Probability that Lives Don’t MatterWe might now reflect on these possibility:Can one ever become free if he longs to be free.?In conjunction, lives are matter but do they matter?Or if we think we are free we can easily move to believe that as free people we matter as people.A common method of determining this question is to see if laws and daily treatment treat everyone the same way…when it is supp
Prologue to Chapter 5 (opens the original)
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My current case is actually consuming much more time than I thought it would. I am finding that even though I am in a temporary lull of up to three weeks I am finding myself in the position that I need to anticipate the answer to my pleading. I am needing to anticipate every possible answer that will likely challenge my pleading and have it dismissed. Their weakest response would of course be to challenge the pleading in regards to vagueness or lack of all of the elements necessary to prove the
Chapter 4: Turning Freedom Into Meaninglessness d (opens the original)
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The Mythology of Human Intelligenced. The Lockean ContractBefore John Locke, the Sky God culture needed a way to explain why some people were masters and others were cogs. They did this by weaponizing health and wealth. Poverty became a moral failure. The box now had a divine excuse to treat the poor like slaves.In older interpretations, if you were poor or sick, it wasn’t because the system was rigged. It was because God was punishing you for a secret sin.Max Weber traced
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