Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance states that if a society tolerates intolerance, that allows intolerant people to destroy tolerance over time. Therefore, a tolerant society must not tolerate intolerance (or intolerant people). In practice, it isn’t really an ethical paradox because intolerant people have chosen to violate the social contract, and are therefore no longer protected … Continue reading “Proportionality”
The best definition of conservativism is: The belief that there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect (Wilhoit’s Law). You might expect that a conservative society would have two sets of laws — one set for the ingroups and a different … Continue reading “Selective Enforcement”
The “political spectrum” as we usually see it is specifically designed to make it seem like a free-market libertarianism is the best political system. It puts “social” on the horizontal axis and “economic” on the vertical axis. Of course, you realize that economics is just another kind of power (and that all power is ultimately … Continue reading “The Many Flavors of Conservative”
There are a lot of things conservatives almost get right, and the nature of censorship in these times — under late-stage capitalism — is one of them. We love to laugh at them when they complain about Twitter or Facebook censoring them, but it isn’t because they’re wrong about the censorship; rather, it is because … Continue reading “Censorship Under Late-stage Capitalism”
