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11-08-2009, 07:16 PM
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11-07-2009, 04:06 PM
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11-01-2009, 09:57 PM
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09-15-2009, 07:28 PM
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09-14-2009, 09:24 AM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-17-2009, 01:04 AM
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07-16-2009, 03:48 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-13-2009, 10:23 AM
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Re: Percontations: Healing Spaces
My first thought is that feelings evoked by Disney's theme park rides or architecture are superficial and perverse and even brainwashing, to the weak-minded or emotionally damaged. I would say that...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-12-2009, 12:40 AM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-06-2009, 01:31 AM
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07-02-2009, 01:58 AM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-18-2009, 12:00 AM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-17-2009, 12:33 PM
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Replies: 58
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Re: The Evolution of God
Karen Armstrong comes immediately to mind as I listen to Bob talk about his book, which I haven't read. I have read Armstrong's A History of God and her biography of Muhammad. Both books I would...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-14-2009, 11:30 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-13-2009, 12:44 PM
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Re: Much heat, little light
Thanks for the heads-up, Wonderment.
Politico reports that Nancy DeParle was paid $5.8 million the last three years by health firms. She has divested, of course.
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-12-2009, 02:16 PM
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Replies: 158
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Re: Megan's flawed utilitarian analysis
MM prefaced her remarks on the market and innovation in terms of utilitarian argument. The market, according to her, creates greater good for a greater number. Am I wrong about her meaning? Three...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-12-2009, 10:00 AM
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Replies: 158
Views: 42,607
Re: Megan's flawed utilitarian analysis
The Classical Utilitarians, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, identified the good with pleasure, so, like Epicurus, were hedonists about value. They also held that we ought to maximize the good,...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-12-2009, 01:14 AM
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Re: Megan's flawed utilitarian analysis
I disagree with your take on utilitarianism. I used the term in the same sense as did Megan, and the sense in which the term is generally understood. The greatest good for the greatest number, or...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-11-2009, 11:07 PM
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Replies: 158
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Megan's flawed utilitarian analysis
A so-called utilitarian approach to health care, which states that private markets produce the greatest innovation which benefits the most people, is seriously flawed. The poor are not affected...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-11-2009, 10:42 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-11-2009, 09:07 AM
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Re: Possible Health Care compromise
Baucus says that any government plan the Democrats could force into law would be "unsustainable". Not if the Democrats acted in a timely manner and got a skillfully-crafted single-payer system into...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-10-2009, 01:26 AM
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Replies: 34
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Re: BloggingTrolls (Ezra Klein & Will Wilkinson)
Will and others want an open market for insurance, and the government should buy insurance for people who can't afford it. The government should funnel taxpayer money into private insurance policies...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-10-2009, 01:01 AM
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Re: BloggingTrolls (Ezra Klein & Will Wilkinson)
Your National Center for Policy Analysis is biased. "The NCPA's goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-08-2009, 11:32 PM
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Replies: 133
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Re: Percontations: The Elusive Hand of God
I would say that a salamander is a salamander and a human being is a human being. It's all about increasing complexity, but of course, some systems die, others change imperceptibly, while others...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-08-2009, 11:06 PM
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Replies: 133
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Re: Percontations: The Elusive Hand of God
That is the nature of emergence. Self-organizing systems, by dint of the biases and constraints imposed by stochastic forces on myriad possible states, produce more complex levels of organization...
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