merjet Posted November 11, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2020 A Metaphysics for Freedom #4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted November 13, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2020 My first two JARS articles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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merjet Posted November 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2020 Self-employment taxes A Metaphysics for Freedom #6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted November 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 Coronavirus – clinical trials #5 (& statistics) Coronavirus -- vaccine effectiveness Truth, Power, Money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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merjet Posted December 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 Coronavirus - spread Coronavirus -vaccine approval Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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merjet Posted December 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 A Metaphysics for Freedom #8 Boydstun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted December 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2020 Schumer and Warren yearn for a dictator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted December 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2020 Two Articles by Walter Williams, RIP Moral debate per Alasdair MacIntyre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boydstun Posted December 16, 2020 Report Share Posted December 16, 2020 Thanks for the look into MacIntyre's famous book. My own take on moral debates has been and is that there are no incommensurable moral premises; parties only need to be willing to dig deeper. There is deeper to be dug concerning human psychology including moral psychology--digging both in developmental moral psychology and in philosophical analysis. That goes not only for the opponent concerns you exhibited from MacIntyre's text, but for the contrasting outlook of taking the making of one's life a good one (in the circumstances) to be the essence of morality with taking one's treatment of persons as persons to be the essence of morality. The debate and progress in the debate can go on, even if particular thinkers and particular eras have finished their own engagements over the questions without getting beyond certain impasses between the outlooks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted December 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2020 Teen: "Math isn't real" Revisited Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted December 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2020 A posteriori and a priori #1 To all, I hope you had a Merry Xmas and wish you a Happy New Year. Sometime in 2021 maybe 20/20 hindsight will put more light on the world. Boydstun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted December 28, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2020 U.S. Election 2020 #1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted December 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 Coronavirus -- symptoms of Covid Boydstun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted January 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2021 Football playoffs and more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted January 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2021 Another smear of Turbotax and H&R Block Coronavirus - profits from vaccines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted January 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2021 Income tax for 2020 (2021 tax season) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted January 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2021 Thomas Sowell: A Vote at the Crossroads Thomas Sowell: Is Truth Irrelevant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted January 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 Teachers unions and political power Pre-existing conditions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy Truth Posted January 18, 2021 Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 4 hours ago, merjet said: Pre-existing conditions The ACA issue is a smoke and mirrors gambit that pitting one small group against another small group in the population. But it's promise is regarding most average earners stuck in a healthcare system that is "rigged" to have excessive costs. The actual solution is a separation of government from economics of healthcare. But the only solutions available to choose from is one kind of government intervention vs. another. The fundamental choice is to be entangled in a crony capitalist "scam", with potentially bankruptcy causing situation vs. tolerating an inter generational malaise in the economy that could lead to loss of other freedoms too. It used to be, we could all suddenly develop a condition that would be considered a preexisting condition that would make you uninsurable. Meaning, uninsurable in the normal market. You could have gotten insurance as much as your rent from the government. A preexisting condition could simply be "you show signs of aging in this organ", it is somewhat arbitrary. That is why it is so personal for most people. Clearly an actual all encompassing free market is the best solution. But the way it is, is in fact a choice between two poisons. The reason that McCain went against Trump in keeping the ACA was in fact that the Republicans had not proposed anything to solve the "rigged system" problem. Nowadays, the ACA is the norm. The ACA solution now has causes excessive risk for another group of people. Those who make too much to get help from the government who could have paid before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted January 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 Easy Truth, A huge step to a free market for health insurance health would get away from government interference. The the two-part structure of the market for people under age 65 needs radically altered. The individual market suffers because the group insurance market has been made too big, which is much attributable to government intervention. Employer-paid Health Insurance Employer-sponsored health insurance #1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy Truth Posted January 18, 2021 Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 44 minutes ago, merjet said: A huge step to a free market for health insurance health would get away from government interference. The the two-part structure of the market for people under age 65 needs radically altered. The individual market suffers because the group insurance market has been made too big, which is much attributable to government intervention. Yes, but who is actually offering a free market for health insurance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted January 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Easy Truth said: Yes, but who is actually offering a free market for health insurance? Some doctors do on a concierge basis. The structural change I described would push out government interference and employers, leaving the matter between insurer and insured. Edited January 18, 2021 by merjet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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