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		<title>Dinesh D&#8217;Souza versus Daniel Dennett</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennett begins by pointing out that religious people have killed innocent people in the past. Dinesh rightly lays the smack down on Dennett by pointing out that atheists have killed more than any religious radical could ever hope to kill.
Daniel Dennett then argues that insofar as Stalin created a cult of worship around himself, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Morality of Richard Dawkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What matters about anything from a moral point of view is Does anybody or anything suffer? So, this obsession with the sacredness of human life is exactly the kind of obscurantist thinking which I associate with religion.
That&#8217;s what Richard Dawkins had to say in this video. It clearly indicates a utilitarian viewpoint. From all I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Justice versus Contractarian Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a paper entitled &#8220;For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything&#8221; today. It was written by Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen, both of the Department of Psychology at Princeton.
A few choice quotes ought to highlight the gist of their argument.
We foresee, and recommend, a shift away from punishment aimed at retribution in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does denial of individualism involve a performative contradiction?</title>
		<link>http://www.individualism.com/?p=199</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Individualism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The individualist denies that anybody other than the individual has a rightful say in how the individual conducts himself.
Typically, the first line of attack by the collectivist is an attempt to reduce the theory to absurdity by suggesting that it implies that the collective cannot prohibit the individual from killing or otherwise doing harm to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Individualism as a Common Premise</title>
		<link>http://www.individualism.com/?p=193</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Individualism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is remarkable that both libertarians and defenders of totalitarian government start from the common premise that an individual should be free.
The bifurcation occurs in the second premise &#8211; i.e., the premise which delimits the realm of freedom. The libertarian argues that the individual is rightly free to act so long as he doesn&#8217;t pose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Individualist Social Contract Altruistic?</title>
		<link>http://www.individualism.com/?p=190</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Individualism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Loren Lomasky, in his Persons, Rights and the Moral Community sets out a rather libertarian theory of rights.
He makes a curious assertion in regard to the formulation of an essentially individualistic social contract. He writes:
Therefore, it is a mistake to commence political analysis with a state-of-nature scenario in which each individual is entirely consumed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Define Individualism</title>
		<link>http://www.individualism.com/?p=183</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Individualism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Chappell doesn’t know what individualism is.
I&#8217;ve noticed that ideological libertarians tend to denounce utilitarian interventions (e.g. redistributive taxation) as &#8220;collectivist&#8221;, or favouring &#8220;the group&#8221; over &#8220;the individual&#8221;. I can&#8217;t make the slightest sense of this charge. Can anyone help me out?
I’d be glad to.
There&#8217;s nothing obviously anti-individualistic about harming one individual in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prisons in Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.individualism.com/?p=171</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Japanese prisons, compliance with rules is extremely high. And that fact is quite remarkable considering the strictness of Japanese prisons.
In solitary confinement, commonly referred to as &#8220;the hole&#8221; in English or 懲罰 in Japanese, the prisoner is awoken at at 7am. Within minutes, the futon must be folded up neatly and stored. The blanket [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Individual Sovereignty, not Liberty</title>
		<link>http://www.individualism.com/?p=163</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The positive liberty versus negative liberty debate gets old, and it isn&#8217;t particularly productive.
If we hold that liberty, usually referred to as individual liberty or personal liberty or negative liberty is the highest moral good, we&#8217;re simply setting ourselves up for a number of criticisms.
The first type of criticism centers around the definition of liberty. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty, Sterba</title>
		<link>http://www.individualism.com/?p=159</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Ethics: The Big Questions, an anthology of essays on moral issues, James P. Sterba argues that there is no meaningful difference between negative liberty and positive liberty.
Depending on who is doing the defining, negative liberty is a freedom from interference or obligation. Positive liberty is liberty which is obtained at the expense of others, [...]]]></description>
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