In part one of this post, I talked about how difficult it is to use rights as the basis of an argument and proposed some ways we can make the discussions involving rights more fruitful. Now, I’m going to talk about what got me thinking about this in the first place, guns. There are two…
This started out as a post about gun rights, but as I thought about it, I realized that post wouldn’t make much sense without a more in depth talk about rights. So, I’m going to attempt my first ever two part post. This one will deal with rights in general and the next one will…
On October 24th, 2014, there were at least two shootings in America. One involved high school students in Washington and the other involved police officers in California. Shootings like these have become so common that they don’t even steal the headlines in the news cycle. These two incidents were right alongside stories about the Ebola…
This post is actually a little hard. I say actually because it should be easy. It should be easy because I have literally never seen a good argument against gun control. But, that is what also makes it hard. There are just so many bad arguments, I don’t even know where to begin. And, let’s…
What do the teachers’ union, the gun lobby, the pro-marijuana activists, the anti-GMO activists, the anti-gay crusaders, and the anti-fracking activists have in common? Apparently, none of them ever took, let alone passed, logic 101. Now, that’s a pretty diverse group, and I am actually sympathetic to some of them. But their arguments in support…
