Prosthetic Conscience

Jason McBrayer's weblog; occasional personal notes and commentary

Shaving Horse Plans
Portable Shaving Horse
Alexander Cockburn: Creatures of Capital
Squatter bobcats of doom! | nostate.com

Anarchist discussion of property rights, with extra bobcats.
Fuck the troops! | nostate.com

A very challenging article. I prefer the motto: “We support our troops when they refuse to deploy.”
Main Page - Open Source Ecology
A radical outline of a sustainable, decentralized, high-tech village economy.
The Raw Story | Denver cops get T-shirts that mock DNC protesters

Denver Cops: We get up early to beat the crowds.
The Partial Observer - Standard of Living vs. Quality of Life

A fictional treatment of an optimistic future outcome of the changes we are living through today.
Sad Sack Artists: Neil Strauss’s The Game and Tony Clink’s The Layguide

A book review discussing how pathetic the members of the “pickup community” are.
Virtue Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

An alternative approach to ethics besides the deontological and consequentialist approaches. I’m still not sure I buy this one, either. I find the justification problem very significant. On the other hand, it seems to lack at least one problem of the others, which is that they can be used to provide moral justification for coercing others to behave in desired ways, whereas it seems much harder to argue this from a virtue ethics standpoint.

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