gun violence
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On ‘Babel,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ and violence.
Violence begets violence; to create a better world, we must act as though it could possibly exist.
Abel's sacrifice, Abraham, An Arcane History, authority figure, Babel, Bible, binding of Isaac, blessing, Cain and Abel, Cain's sacrifice, capitalism, curse, disease resistance, disruption, diversity of languages, Edenic language, electrical shock, Everything Everywhere All at Once, fantasy, fear, film critique, film review, folktales, Genesis 22, Genesis 4, germs, great floods, gun violence, guns, Guns Germs and Steel, Ham, hierarchy, hubris, human migration, immunology, inequality, language, leap of faith, love, Michael Bazzett, Milgram Experiment, Milgram shock experiment, Milgram test, multiverse, myths, Noah, Noah's curse, obedience, Old Testament, origin of Bible stories, origin of inequality, origin of languages, parallel worlds, quantum mechanics, R. F. Kuang, Rebecca Kuang, religion, slavery, spoken word, Stanley Milgram, Steel, The Matrix, The Necessity of Violence, The Popul Vuh, Tower of Babel, Translation, why did humans build the Tower of Babel, Yahweh
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On amusement parks, depression, and familiarity with death.
Some types of fun aren’t meant for everyone …
Albert Camus, amusement park, amusement parks, car crash, death, depression, execution, familiarity with death, Fyodor Dostoevsky, gun violence, heroin, heroin overdose, Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing, Narcan, overdose, pardon, preventable death, psychology, psychology experiments, psychology of amusement parks, psychology studies, psychology study, Scarecrow Scrambler, Scramblers, self-harm, suicidal ideation, suicide, The Idiot, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Scrambler
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On sending kids to school.
I worry when I send my kids to school. I worry that my kids might be hurt by guns, bullying, climate change. But not Covid-19.
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On re-watching The Matrix, twenty years later.
The Matrix was, and is, an incredible film … but now, after all the school shootings, it’s hard for me to watch.
Alan Greenspan, American gun violence, angry young men, Christianity, Colombine, ethics, fear, Grant Morrison, gun control, gun violence, guns, high school, inequality, matrix, moral certainty, morality, Pareto optimal, Pareto optimality, Parkland, political ethics, political philosophy, school safety, school shootings, school stress, social contract, stress, student safety, students against gun violence, students for gun control, The Invisibles, U.S. politics
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On radical religious terrorists targeting the United States.
Radical Christian terrorists have wrecked egregious violence throughout the United States, but few politicians speak out against them.
abortion, Abraham, Alta Vista Hospital, Aryan, attacking doctors, attempted murder, Bible, born into hostage situation, Camus, Christian apologist, Christian Identity, Christian terrorism, conception, Curtis, Danny Davis, Deliver Them from Evil, faith, Fear and Trembling, fetus, Gods of the Blood, gun violence, gynecology, homocide, hostage, hostage situation, intimidation, Israel, jail, Job, Kierkegaard, King James, knight of infinite resignation, leap of faith, Matthias Gardell, McDonalds, Michael Griffin, miscarriage, miscegenation, Mix My Blood with the Blood of the Unborn, Paul Hill, Phineas, Phineas actions, reproductive health, reproductive rights, Richard Kelly Hoskins, self-aborting zygotes, Shelly Shannon, shootings, suicide, terrorism, terrorist, The Pagan Revival and White Separatism, The Phinehas Priesthood, tubal ligation, Utah, violence against doctors, violent vanguard of the Christian Identity movement, when does human life begin, white supremacy, women’s reproductive health, women’s right to choose, zygote
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On punishment as criminal deterrent.
Kedia et al. showed that financial crimes flourish when they go unpunished.
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On death (by gun violence) and taxes (progressive ones).
Devone Boggan’s opinion piece in the New York Times, which discusses a gun violence reduction program where counselors work with & pay at-risk young people to help them stay out of trouble, is lovely. Well worth reading, especially to get a sense of the numbers: these young men are being given such small amounts of…
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