Philosophy 101

The New Individualist published my review of Quee Nelson’ book The Slightest Philosophy.

(Let us set aside the many ways in which goverment interference, through onerous regulations, stifles the profit making ability of businesses.) The essential argument to make against business bailouts is this: Bailing out enterprises like GM means forcing the consumer, i.e. the tax payer, to pay money to GM without receiving anything in return. The consumer who does not want its products has to pay GM anyways without getting anything for his money. The consumer who has purchased a GM product pays more without receiving more. Bailing businesses out means your right to liberty does not need to be respected. It does not matter whether you want a business’s product or service; you still have to pay the salaries of incompetent executives and to secure the jobs, pensions and healthcare plans of thousands of employees who think it is right that you are forced to sacrifice for them. At bottom, a bailout violates your rights because it negates your freedom of choice. That is why bailouts are immoral.

It’s Election Day! Here is some food for thought sent to me by a friend (thanks, Steve!).

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By Anonymous

Whether you agree or not, whether you are a Democrat, Republican, or neither, this article should give everyone in this country something to think about, mull over, and discuss.

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Check out Hey it’s Free, a site that collects information about free product and sample offerings. They recently posted this offer from Nutritional Tree for a free sample of their Revitacil Wrinkle and Eye Cream. Gotta love Capitalism!

There is a blog for almost everything these days, literally (hahaha, someone is cringing right now). Here is one about apostrophe abuse and one about quotation mark misuse. While I admire the creativeness of these bloggers, at the same time I wonder about the degree of obsession that drives a person to set up an entire blog devoted to correcting one type of linguistic or grammatical mistake. But I considered starting one for the use of the word “like”…